An Act of Murder (1948)

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An Act of Murder

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director: Michael B. Gordon
playwright: Ernst Lothar (I) / 迈克尔·布兰克福 / 罗伯特·特尔伦
actor: 弗雷德里克·马奇 / 艾德蒙·奥布莱恩 / 弗萝伦丝·艾尔德里吉 / 杰拉尔丁·布鲁克斯
genre: Drama / Crime
region: United States
language: English
length: 1h 31m
release date: 1948-12-05
IMDb: tt0040072

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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.

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