A Covenant with Death

1967 · 1h 37m · 4.8

Drama

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.

Lamont Johnson

George Maharis, Earl Holliman, Laura Devon, Katy Jurado, Gene Hackman, Arthur O'Connell, Sidney Blackmer, John Anderson, Whit Bissell, Kent Smith

judge, death sentence, capital punishment, justice, border town, mexican american, miscarriage of justice, murder trial, 1920s, unfaithful wife, mob justice, unjust conviction, rural south, husband murders wife, circumstantial evidence