I Confess (1953)
Montgomery Clift stars as a priest who hears the confession of a man who says he murdered someone and unwittingly makes the priest the police's prime suspect.
A classic Hitchcock thriller which he made just before his career went into overdrive with Dial M For Murder, Rear Window and To Catch a Thief. I Confess features some stunning location work in Quebec and flashes of the groundbreaking cinematography which was to come in subsequent films. His black and white camera work acting as if an additional character in this interesting thriller.
What begins as a melodrama accelerates into a tense courtroom thriller as detective Karl Malden begins to suspect the priest might just be a killer. Anne Baxter as the priest's possible lover tries her best to save him.
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