Twilight for the Gods (1958)

Director:

Joseph Pevney

Writers:

Ernest K. Gann (novel), Ernest K. Gann (screenplay)

Stars:

Rock Hudson, Cyd Charisse, Arthur Kennedy

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Rock Hudson	...	Captain David Bell
Cyd Charisse	...	Charlotte King
Arthur Kennedy	...	First Mate Ramsay
Leif Erickson	...	Harry Hutton
Charles McGraw	...	Yancy
Ernest Truex	...	Rev. Butterfield
Richard Haydn	...	Oliver Wiggins
Judith Evelyn	...	Ethel Peacock
Wallace Ford	...	Old Brown
Celia Lovsky	...	Ida Morris
Vladimir Sokoloff	...	Feodor Morris
Charles Horvath	...	Lott
Robert F. Hoy	...	Keim
Maurice Marsac	...	Shipping Clerk
Virginia Gregg	...	Myra Pringle

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

sailing | captain | rowboat | ship on fire | shipwreck | 

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Taglines:

Loved...Hated...Feared...Envied...but only this woman wanted him enough to break the laws of Gods and men !

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

6 August 1958 (USA)

Also Known As:

Crépuscule sur l'océan

Filming Locations:

Hawaii, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Universal International Pictures (UI)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

120 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Did You Know?

Trivia

The ship featured in the film is the Albatross, a brigantine that was later sailed by Dr. Christopher B. Sheldon for his Ocean Academy; a summer program that took on high school age boys to study preparatory college classes and sail training. The ship sank in a storm in the summer of 1961, drowning Sheldon's wife, the ships cook and 3 other students. This story was dramatized in Ridley Scott's film White Squall starring Jeff Bridges.

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Quotes

First Mate Ramsay: Simple men always solve problems with their fists.

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Connections

Featured in Rock Hudson's Home Movies (1992)

User Reviews

Miscasting hurts potentially good film

I guess Universal was trying to give their own Rock Hudson (a recent Oscar nominee for GIANT) a bit of a stretch. I've read the Ernest K. Gann book, and the potential was here for a good film. But in fact Arthur Kennedy would have done better as the irascible captain, while Hudson would have been better cast as the first mate. This disastrous swap squanders the promise of a well-written (Gann himself) film with a decent veteran director (Pevney).