I Confess (1953) is a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It stars Montgomery Clift as Fr. Michael William Logan, a Catholic priest, Anne Baxter as Ruth Grandfort, and Karl Malden as Inspector Larrue. This was the only film Hitchcock made with these three actors. Biographers say he had trouble with "method" actors such as Clift and Paul Newman, who worked with Hitchcock in Torn Curtain.
The film is based on a 1902 French play by Paul Anthelme call...
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I Confess (1953) is a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It stars Montgomery Clift as Fr. Michael William Logan, a Catholic priest, Anne Baxter as Ruth Grandfort, and Karl Malden as Inspector Larrue. This was the only film Hitchcock made with these three actors. Biographers say he had trouble with "method" actors such as Clift and Paul Newman, who worked with Hitchcock in Torn Curtain.
The film is based on a 1902 French play by Paul Anthelme called Nos Deux Consciences, a play Hitchcock saw in the 1930s. The screenplay was written by George Tabori.
The movie was largely filmed on location in Quebec City, Canada, with numerous shots of the city landscape and interiors of its churches and other emblematic buildings, such as the Château Frontenac.
Father Michael Logan (Montgomery Clift) is a devout Catholic priest in a church in Quebec City. To take care of the church and the rectory, Father Logan employes a caretaker, Otto Keller (O. E. Hasse), and a housekeeper, Otto's wife Alma (Dolly...
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