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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.
A Covenant With Death. Stephen Becker. 4.06. 239 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.
A 1920s Mexican-American judge (George Maharis) presides over the trial of a man (Earl Holliman) accused of killing his wife.
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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 ...
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.
Now the burden falls on Ben Lewis (Maharis) a young judge who must decide if the hangman's death was murder or a case of an innocent man trying to save his own life. Based on the best-selling...
A handsome Latino judge in a USA border town in the 1920s navigates two different cultures, not quite fitting into either, while trying to woo two different women in unconventional ways for either culture, to oversee an execution and, later, to officiate a murder trial.
A Covenant With Death. When Louise Talbot is found strangled, suspicion immediately falls upon her husband, Brian (Earl Holliman), a bad apple who threatened his unfaithful wife with bodily harm. 28 IMDb 6.0 1 h 37 min 1967. X-Ray 13+. Suspense · Drama. Available to rent or buy.
