An Act of Murder

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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.—Rod Crawford

Director:

Michael Gordon

Writer:

Ernst Lothar, Michael Blankfort, Robert Thoeren

Actors:

Fredric March, Edmond O'Brien, Florence Eldridge