Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Age rating
- U
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
The story
A U.S. Marine Corps colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
- the white house
- based on novel or book
- general
- kidnapping
- cold war
- pentagon
- coup d'etat
- u.s. air force
- conspiracy
- black and white
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Burt Lancaster
Gen. James Mattoon Scott
Kirk Douglas
Col. Martin "Jiggs" Casey
Fredric March
President Jordan Lyman
Ava Gardner
Eleanor Holbrook
- Edmond O'Brien — Sen. Raymond Clark
- Martin Balsam — Paul Girard
- Andrew Duggan — Col. William "Mutt" Henderson
- Hugh Marlowe — Harold McPherson
- Whit Bissell — Sen. Frederick Prentice
- Helen Kleeb — Esther Townsend
- George Macready — Christopher Todd
- Richard Anderson — Col. Murdock
- Bart Burns — Secret Service White House Chief Art Corwin
- John Alban — Party Guest (uncredited)
- Monya Andre — Party Guest (uncredited)
- Directed
- John Frankenheimer
- Written
- Rod Serling
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 228 ratings
- Studio
- Joel Productions, Seven Arts Productions, Cayuga Productions, John Frankenheimer Productions Inc., Polyphony Digital
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