I Confess (1953)

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I Confess (1951, USA, Alfred Hi ...
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"I Confess is one of Hitchcock's weakest films. It takes a premise that was probably old in 1951 and does absolutley nothing new with it. Here's the premise: a man confesses to Father Logan, a Catholic priest (Montogomry Clift, in a sensitive performance that's the best thing about the film) that he commited a murder. Unfortuanley for the priest, a woman is in love with him, which through the machinations of the plot, make the police seem to think that Monty did it. You know exactly what's going to happen next. The first half hour of the picture is actually very good, as it seems that Hitchcock is going for more of a character study of Father Logan than an actual thriller. But once the plot starts moving the movie goes downhill, as Hitchcock goes to the same "Wrong Man" well he went before (and would go again) with much better sucess. Making things worse is the fact that the movie was severly censored by the Production Code. The clause that forbad negative portrayals of clergy ... " [More]

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"Upset that the Third Reich doesn’t appear in either this summer’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull or Hellboy II: The Golden Army? Of course you are. Nazis have featured in many great Hollywood films, from C " [More]

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