Twilight for the Gods (1958)

Name: Twilight for the Gods
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Released: 1958-08-04
Duration: 120 min
Rating: 4.7
Cast: Rock Hudson, Cyd Charisse, Arthur Kennedy, Leif Erickson, Charles McGraw

Twilight for the Gods (1958), directed by Joseph Pevney, starring Rock Hudson and Cyd Charisse.

08/04/1958 BR Adventure and Drama 2h

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Fate threw them together... a strange adventure held them there! The story of a man driven by many desires ...a woman taunted by many pasts... and the twisted lives of their strange companions that trapped them all!

Synopsis

An alcoholic captain sails a two-master through danger with a call girl and others on board.

Irving GlassbergCinematography
Joseph PevneyDirector
Tony MartinelliEditing
Gordon KayProducer

About the film

Twilight for the Gods is a 1958 American Eastmancolor adventure film directed by Joseph Pevney and starring Rock Hudson and Cyd Charisse. The story is based on the novel Twilight for the Gods by Ernest K. Gann (though the opening credits read "Written by Ernest K. Gann," implying it is an original screenplay rather than an adaptation). An underlying current in the book is about sailing ships with their long histories being replaced by modern steamers, which is what the title refers to—the end of an era for the square-sailed ships.

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Plot

After being court-martialed and discharged from the Navy, Captain Bell (Rock Hudson) turns to drink. Reduced to skippering a rundown brigantine in the South Seas, he takes on board a disparate group of passengers and crew, including a prostitute, a show-biz entrepreneur, a missionary, a washed up opera singer, a couple of refugees, and a load of copra bound for Mexico. The ship springs a leak during a storm, and the true characters of all on board are revealed as the ship tries to make port in Honolulu before it sinks.

Cast

Rock Hudson as Capt. David Bell

Cyd Charisse as Mrs. Charlotte King aka Inez Leidstrom

Arthur Kennedy as First Mate Ramsay

Leif Erickson as Harry Hutton, theatrical manager

Charles McGraw as Yancy

Ernest Truex as Reverend Butterfield, missionary

Richard Haydn as Oliver Wiggins, British playboy

Judith Evelyn as Ethel Peacock, vocalist with Hutton

Wallace Ford as Old Brown, shipmate

Vladimir Sokoloff as Feodor Morris, emigrant

Celia Lovsky as Ida Morris, emigrant

Robert Hoy as Keim

Charles Horvath as Lott

Maurice Marsac as Shipping clerk

Virginia Gregg as Myra Pringle

References

External links

Twilight for the Gods at IMDb

Text from Twilight for the Gods on Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_for_the_Gods

Trivia

It premiered on August 4, 1958, a Monday.
It runs 2h00 — a typical feature length.
This film's quiz has 13 questions — enough to play more than once without repeats.