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Plot

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 understanding than he did before.
MPAA Rating:
Genre(s):
Drama
Run Time:
91min.
Distributor(s):
Universal
Director(s):
Michael Gordon
Starring:
Fredric March , Edmond O'Brien , Florence Eldridge , Geraldine Brooks , Stanley Ridges
Themes:
Lawyers,Miscarriage of Justice
Tone:
Confrontational,Reflective,Tense
Keywords:
disease,euthanasia,false-accusation,husband,incurable,investigation,justice,killing,lawyer,murder,pain,poison,wife