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An Act of Murder

Directed by Michael Gordon
1948    1h 31m    Not Rated
6.9
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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Cast of An Act of Murder
  • Fredric MarchJudge Calvin Cooke
  • Edmond O'BrienDavid Douglas
  • Florence EldridgeCatherine Cooke
  • Geraldine BrooksEllie Cooke
  • Stanley RidgesDoctor Walter Morrison
  • John McIntireJudge Ogden
  • Will WrightJudge Jim Wilder
  • Virginia BrissacMrs. Russell
  • Clarence MuseMr. Pope

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