An Act of Murder (1948)

Quality : SD

Genre :Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Country : United States

Release Date : 17 Dec 1948

Staring : Fredric March, Edmond OBrien, Florence Eldridge

Director : Michael Gordon

Rating : 7.0 (IMDb)

Runtime : 91 min

Storyline :

An Act of Murder (1948) 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.