An Act of Murder (The Judge\'s Wife) (1948)
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6 years, 1 month ago at Apr 15 20:29
Gordon is too demonstrative but he's also efficient. Florence is excellent acting pain and abnegation. March is soft and less convincing at her side. Geraldine Brooks is better.
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In this provocative drama, a stern hard-liner judge commits euthanasia to save his terminally ill wife from further suffering. He decides to kill her by driving the both of them off a cliff. He succeeds in ending her pain, but unfortunately he survives and ends up turning himself in with a full confession. Now it is up to his brilliant lawyer to defend him. He not only justifies the old judge's actions, he also proves that the wife took a fatal dose of poison before getting in the car; therefore she committed suicide. The judge is freed and returns to his courtroom where he oversees his cases with considerably more sympathy and
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Release date: 18 December 1948
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