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...Blue Gardenia (Warner) cooks up a better-than-average whodunit out of some rather commonplace movie ingredients: a dead artist (Raymond Burr), a beautiful murder suspect (Anne Baxter), and a dynamic newspaper columnist (Richard Conte) who solves the crime...
...somewhat wilted plot manages to take on an unaccustomed bloom in Fritz Lang's direction and the acting of an adept cast. Director Lang tells his story mostly with the camera, and gives the picture a brisk pace that helps conceal its slack spots. Anne Baxter makes a thoroughly attractive murder suspect, and Richard Conte as the newsman is such a demon columnist that he apparently never even has to bother to write a column...
...best actor is O. E. Hasse. Playing the warped, half-mad killer, he excites pity and hate with equal verve. Adding new zest to a standard role, Karl Malden plays the relentless, somewhat sadistic police inspector. Brian Aherne, a jovial but brilliant Crown Prosecutor, and Anne Baxter as the frustrated lover of the young priest, round out an exceptional cast...
...thriller, I Confess, is only fair-to-middling Hitchcock. Unlike his best movies, it is often verbal instead of visual. There is a talky courtroom trial and, unusual for Hitchcock, a soggily sentimental flashback depicting a romance between the priest before he entered the church and a girl (Anne Baxter) who later marries a member of the Quebec Parliament. In the leading role, Montgomery Clift frequently appears more deadpan than stoical. Most authentic touches: Karl Malden's portrait of a hard-working detective and some real Quebec backgrounds...
...Perchance Mr. [Beverley] Baxter might benefit from a bicycle trip through the good, solid American countryside. There he might find some who would be in a homey, talkative mood, thus imparting to him yet another side of U.S. life ... If it's conversation he wants, any housewife over here could bring him down to earth in nothing flat. He'd find that a good portion of us are college graduates, as are our husbands. We're usually a family of four with the usual pets. We do our own housework, worry about mortgage payments, food budgets...