A Covenant with Death (1967)

Directors

Lamont Johnson

Cast

George Maharis, Laura Devon, Katy Jurado, Earl Holliman, Arthur O'Connell, Gene Hackman, John Anderson, Sidney Blackmer, Wende Wagner, Whit Bissell, Jose De Vega, Erwin Neal, Russell Thorson, Lonny Chapman, Kent Smith, Larry D. Mann, Emilio Fernández, Jadeen Vaughn, Paul Birch, Kelton Garwood

The story

Within a small American town on the Mexican border in 1923, 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 despite his fierce denials. The presiding judge, Hochstadter, departs for a fishing trip, leaving it to the inexperienced Mexican-American judge Ben Morealis Lewis to oversee the execution.

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