I Confess is a 1953 thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay was written by George Tabori and William Archibald. The movie stars Montgomery Clift as Father Michael Logan, a priest, in a parish in Quebec. After hearing the confession of the real murder, Father Logan is accused of the murder.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045897/plotsummary

Bound by the silence of the confessional regarding a lawyer's murder, Father Michael Logan (Montgomery Clift) is accused and stands trial for the murder. Father Logan is found innocent and attacked by an angry mob before Alma Keller (Dolly Haas), the murderer's wife, confesses the guilt of her husband to the mob.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045897/plotsummary

• Montgomery Clift as Fr. Michael William Logan

• Anne Baxter as Ruth Grandfort

• Karl Malden as Inspector Larrue

• Brian Aherne as Willy Robertson

• O.E. Hasse as Otto Keller

• Roger Dann as Pierre Grandfort

• Dolly Haas as Alma Keller

• Charles Andre as Fr. Millars

• Alfred Hitchcock as Man crossing the top of long staircase

"A good, workmanlike thriller. . . is only fair-to-middling Hitchcock." Time MagazineCinema: The New Pictures

. . . is short of the suspense one would expect."Variety Staff, VarietyI Confess