Covenant With Death, A "Espionage" Herbert Marshall and Laraine Day

Herbert Marshall and Laraine Day play Kathleen's father and governess

Jimmy is no longer reticent about guns and secretly is a mob hit man

and writes the stories that scoop rival newshounds and sell newspapers

Joe Gimlet

Eli Wallach (The Good

Covenant With Death, A "Espionage" Herbert Marshall and Laraine DayTelevision favorite George Maharis (Route 66) makes the transition to big screen stardom in this underrated courtroom gem, powerfully directed by two time Emmy Award winner Lamont Johnson. When Louise Talbot is found strangled, suspicion immediately falls upon her husband, Brian (Earl Holliman), a bad apple who threatened his unfaithful wife with bodily harm. Tried, convicted and sentenced to die, he's brought to the scaffold, where he accidentally