An Act of Murder

(1948)

APPROVED

6.9 /10

884 votes

IMDb

Release & Runtime

December 18, 1948 · 1 hr 31 min

Awards

1 nomination

Languages

English

Countries

United States

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.

Cast: Fredric March, Edmond O'Brien, Florence Eldridge, Geraldine Brooks and others

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