I Confess
1953  NR  DRAMA  1h 31min
CAST— Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden, Brian Ahern, Dolly Haas, O. E. Hasse
MUSIC— Dimitri Tiomkin  DIRECTOR— Alfred Hitchcock  BASED ON— Nos deux consciences (play), by Paul Anthelme

     Now here’s a guy who takes his job seriously. Montgomery Clift plays a Catholic priest with a troubled past. Into his confessional walks a friend who says that he’s committed a murder. Due to Clift’s oaths as a man of the cloth what happens in confessional stays in confessional. The body is soon discovered, suspects are named… with Clift at the top of the list. He refuses to divulge any information learned in confessional, which leads the police to believe that he is in fact guilty. An intriguing drama (another one that showcases Hitch’s police phobia); never top of the line, but surely entertaining.
OUR RATING— ** ½