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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 is convicted of her murder and sentenced to hang on purely circumstantial evidence.
A Covenant with Death: Directed by Lamont Johnson. With George Maharis, Laura Devon, Katy Jurado, Earl Holliman. A convicted murderer kills his hangman. Then it is discovered that he actually didn't commit the murder he was convicted for.
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- Drama
- Lamont Johnson
- 1969-01-23
The storyline of A Covenant With Death (1967), based on a novel by Stephen Becker and set in a sleepy 1923 southwestern town, poses an intriguing question. If an innocent man -- wrongly accused, found guilty, and sentenced to hang for his wife's murder -- escapes from the gallows and causes the death of the hangman in the process, only to then ...
- Lamont Johnson, Gil Kissel
- George Maharis
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A Covenant With Death. Stephen Becker. 4.07. 238 ratings53 reviews. Set in 1923 in the American southwest, a young judge has an enormous responsibility to make in a capital case where a man is charged with murdering his beautiful wife. The parallel plot is his inability to handle life, love, success. Great story.
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- Hardcover
- Stephen Becker
A 1920s Mexican-American judge (George Maharis) presides over the trial of a man (Earl Holliman) accused of killing his wife.
- Mystery & Thriller
An innocent man is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, but as he's about to be hanged he accidentally kills his executioner. He now faces a new trial, presided over by a young and inexperienced judge.
