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Covenant with death (Motion picture : 1967)

A covenant with death / Warner Bros. Pictures ; executive producer, William Conrad ; director, Lamont Johnson ; writers, Lawrence B. Marcus and Saul Levitt.

Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, 2012.

1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

"In the Southwest in the 1920's, a young woman is found strangled in her bedroom. Her husband, Bryan Talbot, the town libertine, is found drunk and incoherent. He is arrested and subsequently convicted of murder by circumstantial evidence stemming from his frequent violent outbursts on the promiscuous conduct of his wife. Judge Hochstadter leaves on a fishing trip, thereby placing a younger judge, Ben Morealis Lewis, in charge of Talbot's hanging. A Mexican-American, Lewis is having an affair with a Swedish woman, Rosemary Berquist, despite the objections of his somewhat domineering mother. On the day of the hanging, Talbot goes berserk at the gallows. During his frenzied outburst proclaiming his innocence, he pushes the hangman from the scaffolding and kills him. A few moments later Lewis learns that one of Talbot's neighbors, Bruce Donnelly, has confessed to the murder in a suicide note. Although absolved of his wife's death, Talbot is arrested for the murder of the hangman. Before the second trial begins, Lewis ends his affair with Rosemary and begins a new one with a young Mexican woman, Rafaela. He also runs into Talbot in a tavern and is nearly killed in a fight when the drunken Talbot accuses him of infidelities with his late wife. Forgetting personal feelings, Lewis acquits Talbot on the grounds that an innocent man, even under sentence of death, has the right to defend himself against a society that has unjustly convicted him, threatening to take his life"--AFI catalog, 1961-1970.

Archive collection

Archive collection.

Capital punishment -- Drama.

False imprisonment -- Drama.

Alcoholics -- Drama.

Mexican American judges -- Southwest (New) -- Drama.

Santa Fe (N.M.)

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Johnson, Lamont, direction.

Marcus, Lawrence B., screenwriter.

Levitt, Saul, screenwriter.

Maharis, George, actor.

Devon, Laura, actor.

Jurado, Katy, actor.

Holliman, Earl, 1928-2024 actor.

Blackmer, Sidney, 1895-1973, actor.

Hackman, Gene, actor.

Rosenman, Leonard, composer.

Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)

Warner Home Video (Firm)

Originally produced as a motionpicture in 1967.

Based on the novel A covenant with death by Stephen Becker, originally published in New York in 1964.

Credits supplied from: AFI catalog, 1961-1970.

Originally distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

Playing time on release was 97 min., according to: AFI catalog, 1961-1970.

"This disc is expected to play back in DVD video Play Only devices and may not play back in other DVD devices, including records and PC drives."--Container.

Assistant director, Gil Kissel; director of photography, Robert Burks; art director, Howard Hollander; editor, William Ziegler; set decoration, Ralph S. Hurst; music composer & conductor, Leonard Rosenman; sound, Stanley Jones; makeup supervisor, Gordon Bau; supervisor hairstylist, Jean Burt Reilly; unit manager, J. Russell Llewellyn; dialogue supervisor, Stacy Harris.

George Maharis (Ben Lewis); Laura Devon (Rosemary); Katy Jurado (Eulalia Lewis); Earl Holliman (Bryan Talbot); Arthur O'Connell (Judge Hochstadter); Sidney Blackmer (Colonel Oates); Gene Hackman (Harmsworth); John Anderson (Dietrich); Wende Wagner (Rafaela); Emilio Fernandez (Ignacio); Kent Smith (Parmalee); Lonny Chapman (Musgrave); Jose de Vega (Digby); Larry D. Mann (Chillingworth); Whit Bissell (Bruce Donnelly); Russell Thorson (Dr. Shilling); Paul Birch (governor); Erwin Neal (Willie Wayte); Robert Dunlap (policeman); Jadine Vaughn (Louise Talbot); Albuquerque Polo Club, Santa Fe County Sheriff's Posse (polo players).

Filmed on location in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

DVD, widescreen (1.78:1), Dolby digital mono.

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