I, Confess

WHEN A PRIEST IS SWORN TO SECRECY Alfred Hitchcock 's suspenseful thriller, I CONFESS, set in the city of Quebec, opens with the murder of a lawyer by the name of Vilette. His killer is a man called Keller, the lay caretaker of a local parish church. Removing his blood-stained cassock, Keller returns to the church on the night of his crime and confesses all to young Father Michael Logan - aware that, in the Roman Catholic canonical code, a priest is forbidden to reveal anything that may be told him in the privacy of a confession booth. By coincidence, Logan's former girlfriend, Ruth Grandfort was, at the time, being blackmailed by Vilette over her affair with the priest prior to his ordination. Since two children witnessed a man in priest's grab leaving Vilette's house, and since Father Logan is unable to provide an adequate alibi, the evidence is strongly weighted against him. How Keller is finally brought to justice provides the gripping climax to one of Hitchcock's most celebrated thrillers. © Warner Bros. Pictures Inc