Twilight of Honor
| Twilight of Honor | |
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| Directed by | Boris Sagal |
| Produced by |
Irv Pearlberg George Seaton |
| Written by |
Al Dewlen Henry Denker |
| Starring |
Richard Chamberlain Nick Adams |
| Music by | Johnny Green |
| Cinematography | Philip H. Lathrop |
| Edited by | Hugh S. Fowler |
| Distributed by | MGM |
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Release date
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October 16, 1963 |
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Running time
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104 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Twilight of Honor, released in the UK as The Charge is Murder, is a 1963 film starring Richard Chamberlain, Nick Adams, Claude Rains, and featuring Joey Heatherton and Linda Evans in their film debuts. Twilight of Honor is a courtroom drama based on Al Dewlen's novel, with a screenplay by Henry Denker. The film was directed by Boris Sagal. Like the 1959 courtroom drama Anatomy of a Murder, it continued a recent trend of descriptions of things previously never mentioned in American cinema, such as vivid accounts of sexual assault, adultery, and prostitution.
David Mitchell (Richard Chamberlain), a widowed lawyer in a small New Mexican city, is appointed by Judge Tucker to defend Ben Brown (Nick Adams) who has been charged with murder. Norris Bixby, an ambitious local prosecutor, has been assigned to try the case, hoping to fill the shoes of Art Harper (Claude Rains), a famed local prosecutor as well as David's friend and mentor, who is now retired.
Mitchell goes to see Art Harper that night to ask for advice and receives a pep-talk from Harper, demanding he use every legal trick in the book to defend his new client. They are interrupted by Harper's niece, Susan (Joan Blackman), who has romantic feelings for David, and has just arrived back in town from Chicago.
During dinner Mitchell says Ben Brown confessed to the killing, and the prosecution is asking for the gas chamber. He knows that Brown is unlikely to get a fair trial in town, and even he confesses to having preconceived notions about him.
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