I Confess (1953)
A Hitchcock film featuring Montgomery Clift and Anne Baxter. I liked it a lot. Monty is quite good as the priest who heard a murderer’s confession. The DVD extras talk about how Hitchcock liked to get the scenes focusing on the actors eyes and then what those eyes were looking at. Monty has great and expressive eyes and serious presence needed for this film. He has various moments in the film where he expresses or hides his surprise — Interesting. This is also a film made a few years before Monty’s car accident which damaged his jaw and altered his looks slightly and health, both for the worse.
Here again also, the ending of this film was apparently changed versus the original material. In this case, I agree it’s too bad, but the current ending is still suspenseful.
