An Act of Murder

An Act of Murder

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1948-12-18

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

91 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (377 Reviews)

Director:

Michael Gordon

Cast:

Writer:

Ernst Lothar (novel)

Michael Blankfort (screenplay)

Robert Thoeren (screenplay)

Fullplot:

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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