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the big lift, george seaton 1953

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istanbul, joseph pevney 1957

stazione termini, vittorio de sica 1953

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Montgomery Clift in I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock, 1953)

Cast: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden, Brian Aherne, O.E. Hasse, Roger Dann, Dolly Haas, Charles Andre. Screenplay: George Tabori, William Archibald, based on a play by Paul Anthelme. Cinematography: Robert Burks. Art direction: Ted Haworth, John Beckman. Film editing: Rudi Fehr. Music: Dimitri Tiomkin.

I Confess is generally recognized as lesser Hitchcock, even though it has a powerhouse cast: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, and Karl Malden. It also has the extraordinary black-and-white cinematography of Robert Burks, making the most of its location filming in Québec. Add to that a provocative setup -- a priest learns the identity of a murderer in confession but is unable to reveal it even when he is put on trial for the murder -- and it's surprising that anything went wrong. I think part of the reason for the film's weakness may go back to the director's often-quoted remark that actors are cattle. This is not the place to discuss whether Hitchcock actually said that, which has been done elsewhere, but the phrase has so often been associated with him that it reveals something about his relationship with actors. It's clear from Hitchcock's repeat casting of actors like Cary Grant and James Stewart that he was most comfortable directing those he had learned he could trust. Clift's stiffness and Baxter's mannered overacting in this film suggest that Hitchcock felt no rapport with them. But I Confess also played directly into the hands of the censors: The Production Code was administered by Joseph Breen, a devout Catholic layman, and routinely forbade any material that reflected badly on the clergy. In the play by Paul Anthelme and the first version of the screenplay by George Tabori, the priest (Clift) and Ruth Grandfort (Baxter) have had a child together, and the murdered man (Ovila Légaré) is blackmailing them. Moreover, because he is prohibited from revealing what was told him in the confessional and naming the real murderer (O.E. Hasse), the priest is convicted and executed. Warner Bros., knowing how the Breen office would react, insisted that the screenplay be changed, and when Tabori refused, it was rewritten by William Archibald. The result is something of a muddle. Why, for example, is the murderer so scrupulous about confessing to the priest when he later has no hesitation perjuring himself in court and then attempting to kill the priest? No Hitchcock film is unwatchable, but this one shows no one, except Burks, at their best.

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Movies I saw in 2022

↳ I Confess (1953)

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I Confess (1953) Alfred Hitchcock

May 9th 2023

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I must confess to you. I must tell someone. I want to make a confession.

I Confess, Alfred Hitchcock (1953)

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Stills from the candle scene in I Confess (1953)

dir. Alfred Hitchcock

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Montgomery Clift on TCM 6/15

Turner Classic Movies has made their daytime theme on June 15th, the man, the myth, the legend, Montgomery Clift! I am extremely excited because I love Clift as an actor and have been learning more about the man he was too!

Some of these films I have seen, others will be my first watch! Here is the line up for Monty’s films on Monday!

6:30 AM - The Search

An American soldier in post-war Europe rescues a homeless child and becomes attached to him.

Also Starring - Ivan Jandl, Aline MacMahon, Wendell Corey, and Jarmila Novotna

DVR Alert - This film is one of my favorite Monty films because it shows how gentle a leading man can be. He also plays so well with the child actor Ivan Jandl, and the bond on the screen feels organic. 

Fun Fact - Clift saved this film. He rewrote a lot of the script and made it better. Unfortunately, he isn’t credited for his contribution so he didn’t get to share in the joy of the film winning Best Writing for A Motion Picture Story at the Oscars.

8:30 AM - The Big Lift

The story of two Air Force sergeants who find love while overseas to fly the Berlin Airlift. 

Also Starring - Paul Douglas, Cornell Borchers, Bruni Löbel, and O.E. Hasse

Personal DVR Alert - I have never seen this film and excited to watch it for the first time!

Fun Fact - Monty was able to make this film because he dropped out of Sunset Blvd. Rumor has it, Libby Holman, his older actress lover, thought the film was too close to home and talked him out of doing it.

10:45 AM - I Confess

A priest is accused of murder and the only way to clear his is name is to break the seal of the confessional, which he won’t do.

Also Starring - Anne Baxter, Karl Malden, Brian Aherne, O.E. Hasse, and Dolly Haas

Hitchcock DVR Alert - This is a highly underrated Alfred Hitchcock film. It is so suspenseful because the audience knows the truth and is on edge the whole time.

Fun Fact - The movie doesn’t mirror the original play 100 percent. The reason is because the censors would have had a fit if the film depicted the priest and his lover having an illegitimate child and the priest being hung at the end. 

12:30 PM - From Here to Eternity 

A private is punished by his captain for not boxing on his team’s unit and at the same time, the captain’s wife and second in command are having an affair.

Also Starring - Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra, Philip Ober, and Ernest Borgnine

A Must Watch DVR Alert - This is probably my favorite Monty film. The ensemble cast is fantastic and the story is just a very interesting one. Clift is also at his best in this film (not just physically, I promise haha). If you aren’t a fan of war films, watch this one. It is more character driven and is technically before the US joined the war.

Fun Fact - Clift was dedicated to his character Prewitt so much that he learned how to play the bugle (he was dubbed though) and took boxing lessons. 

2:45 PM - Indiscretion of an American Housewife

A married American woman tries to break off her affair with an Italian-American professor before she leaves Italy’s  Stazione Termini - or Terminal Station. 

Also Starring - Jennifer Jones, Gino Cervi, and Richard Beymer

Slight DVR Alert - The version being shown is the shorter version. I will explain in the Fun Fact section why there are two versions. I like the longer version better, but feel like both versions are worth a watch.

Fun Fact - Jennifer Jones’s husband, David O Selznick, decided to cut Director Vittorio De Sica’s version of this film for American audiences. Selznick’s version is 72 minutes and De Sica’s version is 89 minutes. The added time fleshes out some plot points and makes the film flow better. 

4 PM - Raintree County

A man jilts his childhood love for a Southern Belle, but their relationship is a complicated one due to her past and the on-set of the Civil War.

Also Starring - Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint, Nigel Patrick, Lee Marvin, and Rod Taylor

Eh DVR Alert - This film is beautifully filmed, but it is long and not very interesting. It has been a while since I last saw it, so maybe I need to revisit it.

Fun Fact - This was the film that Clift was making when he had his infamous car accident. It is noticeable what was shot pre-accident and what was shot post accident. Clift’s face changed a bit, due to surgeries. 

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2.20.20

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I Confess | Alfred Hitchcock | 1953

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I Confess

There are two tensions at work in Alfred Hitchcock’s I CONFESS (1953) that reflect each other. On the one hand you have the very natural performances of Karl Malden, Dolly Haas and, particularly, Montgomery Clift playing against the showier, emptier work of the more typical Hollywood performers in the film. On the other there’s the distinction between cinematographer Robert Burks’ almost documentary location shooting in Quebec City and the more composed, almost expressionistic interiors. Those tensions are never really resolved and, despite the opinions of the French New Wave critics, that and the film’s narrative failings make it less than successful. Clift is a priest who hears a friend’s (O.E. Hasse) confession of murdering a crooked lawyer who happened to be blackmailing Clift’s former girlfriend (Anne Baxter), now a respectable married woman though still in love with Clift. Because he can’t reveal what was said in the confessional, Clift becomes the chief murder suspect. Hitchcock always ascribed the film’s poor box-office showing to the fact that non-Catholics didn’t understand the sanctity of the confessional, but the script (by about a dozen writers, though only George Tabori and William Archibald are credited) repeatedly underlines his inability to reveal whodunnit. I think the real problems are that Clift seems to have ways of talking around the accusations, particularly when Hasse lies about things that passed between them before the confession started, but never uses them, and the blackmail is over nothing. In the source material, a French play that originally starred the great Coquelin, the priest had fathered an illegitimate child before taking his vows. When censorship made Hitchcock cut that, Baxter is simply blackmailed because she and Clift spent a night together, platonically, in a gazebo, which may be a great place for singing “Sixteen Going on Seventeen,” but hardly seems suitable for a night of unbridled passion. Hitchcock may have had problems working with Clift, but the actor’s performance is simply exquisite. He totally inhabits the character and makes Hasse’s and some of the other actor’s generalized posturing look phony by comparison. As for Baxter, she has the rare gift of making even subtle reactions — the turn of her head, the dropping of her eyes — thuddingly obvious. She does so much acting, Clift deserves some kind of award for not laughing in her overwrought face. This was a year before Hitchcock discovered his ultimate leading lady, Grace Kelly, a minimalist who knew enough not to get in the way as the director created her character out of externals.

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* OUTSTANDING CLASSIC CINEMA: "I CONFESS" ©1953 Alfred Hitchcock (Legal / Action Genre - Starring Montgomery Clift; Anne Baxter; Karl Madden; Brian Aherne; and O.E. Hasse), Produced by Transatlantic Pictures https://www.kellygrant.ca/OutstandingClassicCinema.ubr

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I Confess - Rotten Tomatoes

I Confess – Rotten Tomatoes

Father Logan (Montgomery Clift) is a Catholic priest, but he finds his faith put to the test when he is accused of the murder of a wealthy member of his parish. The real murderer was Otto (O.E. Hasse), a poor German immigrant desperate for money, and Father Logan knows this because Otto confessed it to him. However, Father Logan is bound by the secrecy of the confessional and cannot share this…

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CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 6 / 10

Título Original: État de siège

Año: 1973

Duración:125 min.

País: Francia

Director: Costa-Gavras

Guion: Franco Solinas, Costa-Gavras

Música: Mikis Theodorakis

Fotografía: Pierre-William Glenn

Reparto: Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, Jacques Weber, O.E. Hasse, Jean-Luc Bideau, Maurice Teynac, Evangeline Peterson, Jacques Perrin

Productora: Coproducción Francia-Italia-Alemania; Reggane Films / Unidis / Dieter Geissler Filmproduktion

Género: Crime, Drama, Mystery

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070959/

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz3E3lgZZjs

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Montgomery Clift died of a heart attack at 45 in 1966, ten years after a car accident accelerated the decline already set in motion by his health problems and substance abuse. He is buried in a private Quaker cemetery in Prospect Park. Unless they have a relative inside, or have an in with the Society of Friends, though, the lay Clift fan can’t pay homage without some gate-hopping derring-do. Just down the street is the easier-to-get-into BAM, who are currently unearthing eleven of the legendary actor’s films. One of the highlights is I Confess, the sole collaboration between Clift and Alfred Hitchcock, screening Sunday. A favorite of the French New Wavers, its modest popular reputation makes one’s first viewing of it that much more revelatory, for it truly is a knockout.

Like The 39 Steps, The Wrong Man, North by Northwest, and others, I Confess concerns an innocent man wrongly accused. In the opening scene, Clift’s Father Logan hears a murder confession by his German immigrant caretaker and gardener (O.E. Hasse), who had broken into another employer’s house to steal money, but ended up killing him. The murdered man had knowledge of Logan’s pre-priesthood love affair with a married woman, Ruth (Anne Baxter), and was blackmailing them. His death sets the platonic lovers free, a glaring motive that Chief Inspector Larrue (Karl Malden) cottons on to. Because of the sanctity of confession, Father Logan has to bear suspicion and potential arrest—a perfect setup for Hitch to lay on the dramatic irony and suspense. The hateful caretaker doesn’t trust Logan, and his anxious badgering (“You vill tell them!”) and lack of corrective ethics allows I Confess several moments of timely Kraut Menace scarifying.

Of the director’s films, I Confess most closely resembles The Wrong Man. Both are more rigidly stylized than his British works, but these late black and white films have a cooler, drier quality than his color masterpieces. Hitchcock beautifully renders stately Quebec City using high contrast and Wellesian canted angles that complement the story’s moral dubiety. Several would-be mundane shots—tracking the back of Clift’s head, the murdered Villette winking at Ruth in a flashback—have that peculiar terrifying quality absolutely unique to Hitchcock. They’re like that shot in Psycho of Janet Leigh’s boss crossing the street in front of her; it’s impossible to say in words what makes them stick so.

There’s often something vaguely profane about libidinous Hollywood types masquerading as nuns and priests, but Clift, though a hard-living bisexual, has a palpable innocence and vulnerability behind his eyes that make him a perfect fit as a man of the cloth. The silent dignity of the clergyman who masks his suffering is the same quality that Clift made his own. There’s a mysteriousness to him. Behind even his vulnerability, there seems to lurk unknowable dark currents. Their source, like his gravesite, is not open to visitors.

I Confess: Monty Clift Has a Secret | The L Magazine