I Confess (1953)
Directed by Alfred
Hitchcock this film based on a French play stars Montgomery Cliff,
Anne Baxter, Karl Malden and O. E. Hasse. In Quebec a priest is
accused of murder but unable to give his alibi or name the real
killer for ethical reasons.
It is easy to see how
this film has been over shadowed by Hitchcock's other work as it has
a fairly pedestrian plot where the audience knows all and the
protagonist is largely passive through out the events of the film.
The ending of the story appears to have been changed so as not to
offend certain groups and in my opinion that does make for a weaker
resolution. Early on there are one or two nice Hitchcock touches but
even the direction here is not up to the master's usual standards.
3/5
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