An Act of Murder

An Act of Murder

Language : English
Year : 1948
Medical Theme : Brain Tumor/ Mercy Killing
Actors : Fredric March, Edmond O'Brien, Florence Eldridge, Geraldine Brooks, Stanley Ridges…….
Storyline : Frederic March, playing a fiercely strict jurist, rarely shows mercy towards a convicted defendant. However he is portrayed as a loving husband and father. He discovers that his wife is suffering from terminal brain cancer. He loves his wife so much that he is unable to witness her suffering and decides to commit mercy killing, which he executes by way of a car accident. After that he suffers from the guilt and so confesses to his crime and faces conviction in his own courthouse.