Twilight of Honor

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 Dewlens 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 goes to see his Art Harper that night to ask for advice and receives a peptalk of sorts from Harper, demanding he use every legal trick in the book to defend his new client, or to get the hell of this porch and never come back. They are interrupted by Arts niece, Susan, who has romantic feelings for David, and has just arrived back in town from Chicago.During dinner David reveals the facts about the case. Ben Brown has 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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