Monty @ 100: A Hitchcock detour with "I, Confess"
Tuesday, October 6, 2020 at 7:30PM We're watching every Montgomery Clift film for his Centennial. Here's Jason Adams
And so we come to Montgomery Clift's sixth film, and that accursed number of the devil seems appropriate given I speak of Alfred Hitchcock's I, Confess. The Master of Suspense's 1953 drama had the actor slipping into the world's most form-fitting cassock to play a Quebecois priest suspected of murder most foul. The twist in this whodunit is he didn't dun it, but knows who did dun because the guilty party confessed the crime in confessional. A fact Monty's character of Father Logan can't share with the prosecution, given ye damned sacramental seal of confession. It's a trap! Call it The Father Who Knew Too Much and then call it a day.
The marriage of Monty and Hitch was a well-documented rocky ride...