An act of murder (DVD) / Universal-International presents ; screenplay by Michael Blankfort, Robert Thoeren ; produced by Jerry Bresler ; directed by Michael Gordon.
Publisher:
Loving the Classics,
Copyright Date:
2008
Description:
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Based upon the novel The mills of God by Ernst Lothar. Originally released as a motion picture in 1948. Fredric March, Edmond O'Brien, Florence Eldridge, Geraldine Brooks.
Summary:
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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