It's superbly photographed in black and white Panavision by Philip Lathrop which is about the only thing you can say in favour of this turgid courtroom melodrama. "Twilight of Honor", which came out in 1963, was poorly written, poorly directed and poorly acted with Richard Chamberlain as the inexperienced young lawyer roped into defending Nick Adams on a murder charge, knowing the case is strongly rigged against him.
Richard Chamberlain was as big a star as MGM ever had when Chamberlain was TV's Dr. Kildare.
In an unnamed city in a fictional county in New Mexico, a vicious killer (Nick Adams) is being tried for murder. The courtroom drama focuses on an ambitious prosecutor (James Gregory) and a young and inexperience defender (Richard Chamberlain).
I know her Dad had a TV show,kinda like "Mr. Rogers", where he played a mailman...
Richard Chamberlain, then-hot from TV's "Dr. Kildare", plays a green defense attorney who takes on a supposedly-unwinnable murder case in court, aided by creaking legal legend Claude Rains.
The story line here is quite good. A very troubled young man (Nick Adams) marries a floozy (Joey Heatherton), and a sleaze ball (Pat Buttram) ends up dead.
OK courtroom drama from Perlberg-Seaton, with MGM capitalizing on Richard Chamberlain's TV success by casting him as a rather Kildare-like defense attorney. He's recently widowed, and he's given the unenviable job of defending sleazy-but-polite Nick Adams, who's already confessed, twice, to murdering Pat Buttram, a well-liked local politico who was trying to make time with Adams' sluttish wife, Joey Heatherton.
This is, though entertaining, far from a good movie. It comes across as a long television show.
As a break from his Dr. Kildare series, Richard Chamberlain got to get some good exposure on the big screen in Twilight of Honor.
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