Starring Rock Hudson, Cyd Charisse, Arthur Kennedy, Leif Erickson, Charles McGraw,
Ernest Truex, Richard Haydn
Directed by Joseph Pevney

Print: color
Runtime: 120 min.
Genre: drama
Print Quality: B

Adapted by Ernest Gann from his own novel, Twilight for the Gods bears traces of Gann's
earlier The High and the Mighty. This "psychological adventure" stars Rock Hudson as
Captain Bell, who crawls into a bottle after being court-martialed and discharged from the
Navy. Reduced to skippering a rundown schooner in the South Seas, Bell comes into
contact with a group of passengers and crew members who are almost as mixed up as he
is: Charlotte (Cyd Charisse), a Honolulu prostitute on the lam from the authorities; Hutton
(Leif Erickson), a third-rate show biz entrepreneur, Wiggins (Richard Haydn), an erudite
beachcomber; Feodor and Ida Morris (Vladimir Sokoloff, Celia Lovsky) a refugee couple;
ineffectual missionary Butterfield (Ernest Truex); washed-up opera star Ethel Peacock
(Judith Evelyn); and second mate Ramsay (Arthur Kennedy), an all-around rotter. In other
words, it's "Grand Hotel" at sea. During a treacherous, life-threatening storm at sea, the
true characters of the passengers and crewmen are revealed — for better or worse.