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I confess [videorecording (DVD)] / directed by Alfred Hitchcock ; written by Maxwell Anderson and Angus MacPhail.

Contributor(s): Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980 [direction.] | Clift, Montgomery [cast.] | Baxter, Anne [cast.] | Malden, Karl [cast.] | Tabori, George, 1914-2007 [writing.] | Anderson, Maxwell, 1888-1959 [writing.] | Tiomkin, Dimitri, 1894-1979 [music.] | Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Alfred Hitchcock: the signature collection.Publisher: London : Warner Brothers, 2004Description: 1 videodisc (DVD) (ca. 92 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 4 3/4 in.Other title: Alfred Hitchcock's "I Confess" [Cover title].Subject(s): Feature films | Detective and mystery films | Murder -- DramaDDC classification: 791.43 HIT
Production Credits: Director, Alfred Hitchcock ; writers, George Tabori and William Archibald; music, Dimitri Tiomkin.
Cast: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden.Summary: Father Logan, stolid, stalwart, to all appearances the embodiment of priestly piety, hears a murderer's confession. Almost immediately Logan is plunged into peril, for circumstantial evidence and eyewitness accounts point to a priest as the killer. The Sacrament of Penance forbids him to reveal what he knows. As calamity and coincidence conspire to paint Logan into a hopeless corner, it becomes the priest who must admit to himself, and confess his own human frailty. If you knew what he knew what would you do?
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General lending MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library DVD 791.43 HIT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00193219
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DVD release of the 1953 motion picture, based on the play "Nos deux consciences" by Paul Bourde.

Special features include: Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at "I Confess" ; Gala Canadian Premiere for "I Confess".

Director, Alfred Hitchcock ; writers, George Tabori and William Archibald; music, Dimitri Tiomkin.

Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden.

Father Logan, stolid, stalwart, to all appearances the embodiment of priestly piety, hears a murderer's confession. Almost immediately Logan is plunged into peril, for circumstantial evidence and eyewitness accounts point to a priest as the killer. The Sacrament of Penance forbids him to reveal what he knows. As calamity and coincidence conspire to paint Logan into a hopeless corner, it becomes the priest who must admit to himself, and confess his own human frailty. If you knew what he knew what would you do?

DVD, Dolby digital.

Please ask for DVD at CCAD Library desk.