I Confess
film by Hitchcock [1953]
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I Confess (1953) is an Alfred Hitchcock film set and largely filmed in Quebec, Canada. The movie stars Montgomery Clift as a Catholic priest who hears a murderer's confession. Because of the sanctity of confession, the priest cannot reveal what he knows, which prevents him from clearing himself when he becomes a suspect in the crime. The film focuses on themes of guilt and the conflict between religious vows and legal justice, lacking the mordant humor found in some of Hitchcock's other works.1
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