Droit de tuer was released in the year 1948。Droit de tuer is also called as An Act of Murder, Thi kendes for ret, The Judge's Wife, Piedad criminal, Na giati eglimatisa, Live Today for Tomorrow, Jag är anklagad, Huomispäivä parempi, Delitto del giudice。

Judge Cooke, good husband and father, is known in court as Old Man Maximum. Cooke's daughter loves defender Dave Douglas, who hates Cooke's attitude toward defendants. Cooke's life shatters when he learns his wife has terminal brain cancer; as her pain worsens, he begins to consider mercy-killing, but that would place him in the position of a defendant.

Droit de tuer actors and actresses include Edmond O'Brien, Fredric March。