An Act of Murder (1948)
Approved 17 Dec 1948 • Crime, Drama, Film-Noir • 1h 31m
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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English
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1 nomination
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United States
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