Directed by Robert Aldrich
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Olive Films)
Burt Lancaster convinces his prison buddies to break into a missile silo, promising them millions of dollars while he makes a political point. His plan is to threaten to start WWIII, take the president hostage and force him to read a top secret document to the American public which implicates that a former administration knew the Vietnam War was hopeless and sacrificed lives to prove a point with the Russians. The military tries to stop him by placing a bomb in the silo, but get tripped up at the last second. They have no choice but to give in to his demands and send in the president. Overlong, talky and a bit dated, but occasionally riveting, especially the bravura finale.
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