Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurring.
- new york city
- usa president
- general
- atomic bomb
- missile
- cold war
- interpreter
- pentagon
- bunker
- hydrogen bomb
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Frank Overton — Gen. Bogan
- Edward Binns — Col. Jack Grady
- Dan O'Herlihy — Brig. Gen. Warren A. Black
- William Hansen — Defense Secretary Swenson
- Russell Hardie — Gen. Stark
- Janet Ward — Helen Grady
- Dom DeLuise — TSgt. Collins
- Russell Collins — Knapp
- Sorrell Booke — Congressman Raskob
- Nancy Berg — Ilsa Wolfe
- John Connell — Thomas
- Directed
- Sidney Lumet
- Written
- Walter Bernstein
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 477 ratings
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
