A Covenant with Death is a 1967 American legal drama film directed by Lamont Johnson (in his feature directorial debut), with a screenplay by Lawrence B. Marcus and Saul Levitt based on the 1964 Book of the Month novel of the same title by Stephen Becker.

Her grieving, jealous and widely disliked husband Bryan Talbot is convicted of her murder and sentenced to hang on purely circumstantial evidence despite his fierce denials.

In early 1966, Stephen Becker's novel "A Covenant with Death" was assigned to William Conrad's new production company within Warner Bros. for adaptation to the screen, along with An American Dream by Norman Mailer and Speak Not Evil by Edwin Lanham.

[4] Katy Jurado gained 25 pounds for her role and entered a hospital as soon as filming wrapped in order to lose the weight.

[6] In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Howard Thompson wrote: "A genuinely original idea for a drama weighing justice, prejudice and the human conscience is studiously frittered away ... [T]he film itself slips in to a devious, figure-eight treatment, siphoning out the action and even the characterizations.