A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of a secret meeting held just after the start of the Vietnam War between Dell and the then President's most trusted advisors.

• Lorimar Productions
• Bavaria Film
• Burt Lancaster
• Roscoe Lee Browne
• Charles Durning
• Joseph Cotten
• Melvyn Douglas
• Richard Jaeckel
• William Marshall
• Gerald S. O'Loughlin