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DVD Release Date
• R1: Sep 7, 2004
Running Time
1 hour, 35 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
Warner Bros.
Studio Warner Brothers
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Other Titles
• I Confess (1953)
• Ich beichte (1953)
• Zum Schweigen verurteilt (1953)
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Genre: Thriller, Drama, Suspense, Religion, Blackmail, Psychodrama, Detectives, Melodrama, Police, Marriage, Law, Infidelity, Murder, Courtroom
Tagline: Crushed lips don't talk...
Plot: I CONFESS, from the play by Paul Anthelme, is based on a premise custom made for Alfred Hitchcock's fascination with the dilemma of an innocent man accused of a crime. Montgomery Clift plays Father Michael Logan, a priest who hears the confession of a murderer and soon finds himself framed for the crime. Circumstantial evidence mounts, painting an ever more damning picture of the priest's crime while he is bound by his priestly vows not to reveal what he has learned in confession. If other Hitchcock dramas such as SABOTEUR follow the plight of the innocent man through breakneck pursuits, I CONFESS succeeds on the strength of Clift's ability to convey the real anxiety of the moral dilemma he faces and the effects of the widening chasm between pious intentions and social disgrace. Strong performances are also given by O.E. Hasse as the bitter and murderous gardener Otto Keller and by Anne Baxter as the woman whose faith in Father Logan also threatens scandal.
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All About Eve, The Ten Commandments, The Magnificent Ambersons |
 | Karl Malden
On the Waterfront, Patton, A Streetcar Named Desire |
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