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Twilight for the Gods is a american film of genre Drama directed by Joseph Pevney released in USA on 6 august 1958 with Rock Hudson
Twilight for the Gods (1958)
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Add to a movie listTwilight for the Gods is a 1958 drama 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.
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After being court-martialed and discharged from the Navy, Captain Bell (Rock Hudson) turns to drink. Reduced to skippering a rundown schooner 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, and a couple of refugees. During a storm at sea, the true characters of all on board are revealed.Actors
Rock Hudson
(Captain David Bell)
Cyd Charisse
(Charlotte King)
John Arthur Kennedy
(First Mate Ramsay)
Leif Erickson
(Harry Hutton)
Charles McGraw
(Yancy)
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