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...morning of execution, five armed warders and an African priest entered the death cell. The murderers chucked them out and, screaming like madmen, attacked the cell walls with bleeding hands and feet. After two hours' battering, the eight frightened convicted men burst out on to the fairway. They found themselves in the middle of a square of 100 armed policemen, with rifles at the ready...
Despair lent the murderers courage to face their fate. Meekly they surrendered and asked a Roman Catholic priest to baptize them. Then, all eight squatted on the ground and kissed a handful of red earth in token of their love for the land. A few minutes later, as the morning golfers watched, they disappeared up the ramp leading to the hidden gallows. "The executions," said an official bulletin, "were carried out according...
Based on a play by Paul Anthelme, I Confess depicts a young Catholic priest, who, after hearing a real murderer's confession, is accused of the same murder. As the young priest, callow Montgomery Clift turns in a fine, sensitive performance. But by far the 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...
...good, workmanlike 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...
...Little World of Don Camillo. France's Fernandel as a battling parish priest and Italy's Gino Cervi as a Communist mayor in a film version of the bestselling novel (TIME...