It was not a film suited to the videocassette era - the split-screen effects that Aldrich develops so brilliantly barely register in low resolution - and by the time DVDs arrived, the rights had reverted to the film’s German co-producers, and a major remastering effort was required. Ominous was out, and aw-shucks sincerity was in - a mood that “Star Wars” would capture four months later.Īnd yet the reputation of “Twilight’s Last Gleaming” has grown over time, particularly as it became difficult to see. The film-going public was not interested in Aldrich’s acerbic agitprop, even if it was embedded within a tight, effective thriller about a disillusioned general (Burt Lancaster) who takes over a missile silo in Montana, placing nine nuclear warheads under his control. Nixon was enjoying his pardon and working on his memoirs. Vietnam was over, Watergate was behind us, and Richard M. Released a few weeks after Jimmy Carter’s inauguration, Robert Aldrich’s 1977 political thriller “ Twilight’s Last Gleaming” found few takers for its angry denunciation of America’s cold war policies.
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