An Act of Murder (1948) YTS - Download Yify Movie

Reviewed by william d 7 / 10

It's really not too bad for a low

It's really not too bad for a low budget courtroom drama. The soundtrack is a bit obtrusive though.

Reviewed by 8 / 10

Remarkable Little Film

There's something quite remarkable at the heart of this honest and direct portrayal of a very human crisis. The leads here - Frederic March and Florence Eldridge, real-life husband and wife - are completely and thoroughly a middle-aged couple and depicted as such, in all their wrinkles and folds and reflections on lives that have been lived. It's a reminder that the two kinds of people we see in movies are the very young and beautiful and the very old. The Cookes here are seemingly fully filled in, a husband and wife with grown children, in the midst of real lives, inhabiting their marriage with the deep love that is far beyond the romantic love that's the staple of motion pictures. This isn't the dashing Frederic March of the 1930s but a mature, restrained father and husband. It's a bit melodramatic at times - director Michael Gordon is a journeyman professional and not William Wyler, director of the great film of that era starring March, The Best Years of Our LIves. But watch for the details, such as the sharp, discordant strings stabbing along as windshield wipers swipe across the screen. I think I saw that in another movie made a few years later.

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An Act of Murder

1948

Action / Crime / Drama / Film-Noir

An Act of Murder

1948

Action / Crime / Drama / Film-Noir

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It's really not too bad for a low

Remarkable Little Film

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