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. He gets a former old pro lawyer, (Claude Rains, in his penultimate movie), to help him, leading to every cliche in the book.
This is one of the least believable of all courtroom movies. Adams was inexplicably nominated for an Oscar for his performance and it's hard to believe the appallingly wooden Chamberlain actually had a career after this. Still, a lot of people think quite highly of the picture which perhaps only goes to show that courtroom movies are exceedingly popular even when they aren't any good. This is one of the worst.
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