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A Covenant with Death is a 1967 American legal drama film directed by Lamont Johnson (in his feature directorial debut), from a screenplay by Lawrence B. Marcus and Saul Levitt, based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Stephen Becker.[1][2] The film stars George Maharis, Laura Devon, Katy Jurado, and Earl Holliman.

A Covenant with Death
Film poster
Directed byLamont Johnson
Written by
Based onA Covenant with Death
by Stephen Becker
Starring
CinematographyRobert Burks
Edited byWilliam Ziegler
Music byLeonard Rosenman
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • February 15, 1967 (1967-02-15)
Running time
97 minutes
CountryUnited States
Languages
  • English
  • Spanish

Plot


Within a small Southwestern town on the Mexican border in 1923 America, a promiscuous married woman is found dead in her bedroom. Her grieving, jealous and widely disliked husband, Bryan Talbot (Earl Holliman), is convicted of her murder and sentenced to hang on purely circumstantial evidence. The presiding Judge Hochstadter (Arthur O'Connell) departs for a fishing trip, leaving it up to the inexperienced, 29 year old Mexican-American judge (and lothario) Ben Morealis Lewis (George Maharis), to oversee the execution. Problem is, Lewis has his own misgivings about mandatory sentencing and capital punishment in general, and about Talbot's guilt in particular.

In a stunning turn of events, Talbot unintentionally kills his executioner while trying to avoid being hanged for a murder he fiercely denies having committed. While awaiting the arrival of a replacement hangman, another man confesses to killing Talbot's Wife. Judge Lewis must negotiate various relationships (with his mother, and two very different women for whom he harbors strong and conflicting feelings), in addition to provincial attitudes about love and marriage, sexuality, modernity, maturity, cultural integrity, group loyalty and his faith in the triumph of justice.


Cast



References


  1. "A Covenant With Death by Stephen Becker". Goodreads. Retrieved January 17, 2021.
  2. Becker, Stephen (January 12, 2016). A Covenant with Death: A Novel. Open Road Media. ISBN 978-1504026895. Retrieved January 17, 2021 via Google Books.






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