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Writers:
Michael Blankfort (screenplay)
Ernst Lothar (novel)
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Release Date:
18 December 1948 (Sweden) more
Plot:
A hard-line judge is tempted toward mercy-killing by his wife's terminal cancer. full summary | add synopsis
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Not for hypochondriacs! more (2 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Fredric March | ... | Judge Calvin Cooke |
 | Edmond O'Brien | ... | David Douglas |
 | Florence Eldridge | ... | Catherine Cooke |
| Geraldine Brooks | ... | Ellie Cooke |
| Stanley Ridges | ... | Doctor Walter Morrison |
| John McIntire | ... | Judge Ogden |
| Frederic Tozere | ... | Charles Dayton |
 | Will Wright | ... | Judge Jim Wilder |
| Virginia Brissac | ... | Mrs. Russell |
| Francis McDonald | ... | Mr. Russell |
| Mary Servoss | ... | Julia |
| Don Beddoe | ... | Pearson |
| Clarence Muse | ... | Mr. Pope |
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Live Today for Tomorrow
The Judge's Wife (USA) (working title)
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91 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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USA:Approved (PCA #13099) | Finland:S
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Doctor Walter Morrison: What is incurable today is curable next Wednesday. more
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This film's relentless plotline marches straight-ahead forward as you squirm, fascinated, in your chair. The story is the familiar one about the onset of terminal illness within a solid American family of the 1940s. Never mind that it delves into MGM-style sermonizing; the great real-life husband/wife team of Fredric March and Florence Eldridge portray the couple whose once-comfortable lives are now being separated by an unstoppable and fast-advancing disease. The helpless husband, the uncomplaining wife, and their final attempt to recapture happier days with a doomed weekend outing is the stuff of deep film drama indeed. The sense of onrushing darkness is tangible through the film-noir camera shadings of Hal Mohr (Captain Blood, Phantom of the Opera [1943], The Climax), and Daniele Amfitheatrof's rich musical score. "An Act of Murder" makes a profound statement on the value, and the fragility, of life.