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Un generale dell'aeronautica militare degli Stati Uniti, in prigione con un piano personale segreto, evade e prende il controllo di un base missilistica, minacciando di scatenare la terza gu... Leggi tuttoUn generale dell'aeronautica militare degli Stati Uniti, in prigione con un piano personale segreto, evade e prende il controllo di un base missilistica, minacciando di scatenare la terza guerra mondiale.Un generale dell'aeronautica militare degli Stati Uniti, in prigione con un piano personale segreto, evade e prende il controllo di un base missilistica, minacciando di scatenare la terza guerra mondiale.
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- QuizRobert Aldrich turned down a large salary and a 10% profit stake in Quell'ultimo ponte (1977) in order to make this film.
- BlooperThe film is set to take place in 1981, then four years into the future. The Titan (I) missile was already retired in 1965. The Titan II missile was still in service in 1981, although even that had originally been scheduled to be retired beginning in 1971. This is relevant not the least because the Titan II was fired from its silos while its less advanced predecessor Titan I needed to be fueled up first and raised from the silo on a giant elevator system (as shown in the movie).
- Citazioni
Lawrence Dell: There are no midgets in the United States Air Force.
- Versioni alternativeThe original UK cinema release featured the 2 hour version. The 1998 Warner video featured the extended 138 minute print.
- Colonne sonoreMy Country Tis of Thee
Music by Lowell Mason (uncredited) based on the music by Henry Carey from "God Save the King" (1744)
Lyrics by Samuel Francis Smith (uncredited) (1832)
Performed by Billy Preston
from the album "I Wrote a Simple Song"
on A & M Records and Tapes
Recensione in evidenza
And If it says Richard Widmark on the cast, you know he's going to play a top general, and even more ridiculously than in "The Swarm". Here, Burt Lancaster--playing the mad-dove equivalent of his mad-hawk general from "Seven Days in May"--hijacks a nuclear missile silo, demanding the President (Charles Durning, uncannily resembling the present-day Bill Clinton) as hostage, and threatens to launch it if the government doesn't release the secret memo of why we went to Vietnam.
The whole "Ironic patriotism" is laid on a little too thickly, as if the German filmmakers were trying a little too hard to make an American Picture, but the real problem is director Robert Aldrich: The ex-Baby Jane director didn't quite survive the 70's ("The Longest Yard", "The Choirboys"), the Aldrich touch was never elegant or subtle, and the opening "heist" scenes of hijacking the silo are spoiled by turning Lancaster's partners-in-crime into foul-mouthed cliche' thugs. Also, for almost half the film, Aldrich tries to borrow Brian dePalma's trick of split-screening parallel plots and phone conversations, but doesn't seem to understand how dePalma used them for "suspense"--Here, he just lets things play out like we're watching the movie on dual security cameras, or a film-school editing assignment of "How would you intercut these two scenes to make it more exciting.?"
Stil, worth a watch if it comes your way.
The whole "Ironic patriotism" is laid on a little too thickly, as if the German filmmakers were trying a little too hard to make an American Picture, but the real problem is director Robert Aldrich: The ex-Baby Jane director didn't quite survive the 70's ("The Longest Yard", "The Choirboys"), the Aldrich touch was never elegant or subtle, and the opening "heist" scenes of hijacking the silo are spoiled by turning Lancaster's partners-in-crime into foul-mouthed cliche' thugs. Also, for almost half the film, Aldrich tries to borrow Brian dePalma's trick of split-screening parallel plots and phone conversations, but doesn't seem to understand how dePalma used them for "suspense"--Here, he just lets things play out like we're watching the movie on dual security cameras, or a film-school editing assignment of "How would you intercut these two scenes to make it more exciting.?"
Stil, worth a watch if it comes your way.
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Botteghino
- Budget
- 6.200.000 USD (previsto)
- Tempo di esecuzione2 ore 26 minuti
- Colore
- Proporzioni
- 1.85 : 1
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