Released Date:
1947-07-26
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
108 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (2862 Reviews)
Director:
Curtis BernhardtSilvia Richards (screenplay)
Ranald MacDougall (screenplay)
Rita Weiman (story)
A dazed woman walks the streets of Los Angeles looking for a man named David. After collapsing in a diner, she's taken to the psychiatric ward of a nearby hospital. Flashbacks reveal her obsession for David as a result of borderline personality disorder which ultimately leads to murder.
Released Date:
1948-12-18
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
91 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (377 Reviews)
Director:
Michael GordonErnst Lothar (novel)
Michael Blankfort (screenplay)
Robert Thoeren (screenplay)
Judge Cooke, good husband and father, is known in court as Old Man Maximum. Cooke's daughter loves defender Dave Douglas, who hates Cooke's attitude toward defendants. Cooke's life shatters when he learns his wife has terminal brain cancer; as her pain worsens, he begins to consider mercy-killing, but that would place him in the position of a defendant.
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