# I Confess (1953)

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**Runtime**: 95 min
**Genres**: Drama, Thriller, Crime
**Directed by**: Alfred Hitchcock
**Written by**: William Archibald, George Tabori
**Starring**: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden, Brian Aherne, O.E. Hasse, Roger Dann

> *If you knew what he knew what would you do?*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Quebec City’s midnight bells, a wet cassock hem dragging through the street.
A priest listens to the same killer’s third confession while raindrops echo in bronze fonts.
Hitchcock’s black carapace of guilt parks right outside the courtroom door.

**Mood tags**: paranoid, slow-burn

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