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An Act of Murder
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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Awards
- 1949 - Grand Prize of the Festival - - nominated
- 1948 - Photoplay Award - Best Performances of the Month (November) - winner
