Warner Bros.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, Warner Bros.)
Montgomery Clift is a Catholic priest who hears the confession of a man who just committed murder. The man abuses the priest-penitent privilege and proceeds to frame Clift for the crime. A motive is supplied by Clifts's pre-priesthood relationship with Anne Baxter. After planting evidence, Clift is arrested, tried, but found innocent by a skeptical judge and jury. On the way out of the courthouse, the murderer's wife breaks down and let's out the truth. Clift and the police follow the killer for a final confrontation. Subdued, atypical Hitchcock, that nonetheless explores the familiar Hitchcockian themes of murder and the "wrong man". Clift is quietly intense as usual, but lacks chemistry with Baxter, and their backstory is just not that interesting. Beautiful location shooting around Quebec, Canada.
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