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montgomery clift
27.2.10
I Confess.- reportaje North of the border

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25.1.10
Quebec, ciudad hitchcockiana
"(...) Me detuve en I confess (Yo confieso o Mi secreto me condena, fueron sus títulos en español, aunque ahora que se ha editado en DVD el secreto se convirtió en “pecado”: Mi pecado me condena), la cinta canadiense de Hitchcock. Estaba sólo en renta, y le pedí a los amigos que eran nuestros anfitriones la llevaran a casa. Por lo mismo, cuando esa otra tarde hicimos el viaje en río desde Montreal y apareció ante nosotros el viejo Quebec, pensé que llegaba a una locación hitchcockiana, pues Yo confieso abre con esa misma vista filmada desde un ferry. Luego, unas flechas de tránsito con la leyenda “direction” van conduciendo a los espectadores al lugar donde se acaba de cometer el asesinato. Se ve, desde la ventana, al hombre tirado en el interior y una cortina de cuentas de madera que se sacude en la puerta por alguien que acaba de cruzarla; y sale de la casa un hombre con sotana y sombrero, que camina calle abajo. Dos adolescentes pasan por ahí de regreso al hogar (a deshoras, porque en sus tiempos libres cuidan niños), y van atrás de él. Esta es la secuencia inicial de esa película que había filmado Hitchcock en Quebec justo cincuenta años antes de que llegáramos a la ciudad (...)"
El autor demuestra tener bastante conocimientos acerca de Montgomery Clift y su actuación:
"Montgomery Clift firmó el primero de julio para interpretar al padre Michael Logan. (...) Sorprendió de tres maneras a Hitchcock.
Una: En 1945 el actor había conocido, en la Gran Estación Central de Nueva York, al hermano Tomás, un joven monje que acababa de tomar los hábitos y con el que hizo gran amistad; a su llegada a Canadá, Clift buscó a su amigo y vivió con él unos días en un monasterio para que éste le enseñara a rezar el rosario y decir la misa. Obtuvo de él una forma de caminar que el actor creyó propia de los curas. Con estas armas, Montgomery Clift estaba casi listo para empezar el rodaje.
Dos: Como “actor de método”, Clift no sólo estudiaba a conciencia a sus personajes sino que requería de la constante supervisión de su maestra Mira Rostova, que viajó con él a Quebec y aprobaba, a escondidas del director o para su desesperación, las maneras y tonos del padre Logan.
Y tres: El actor tenía una dependencia más: la bebida. Luego de la filmación, y para vengarse de él, Hitchcock pidió en una fiesta que la copa de Clift siempre estuviera llena y le provocó una borrachera que a las pocas horas lo dejó tirado en el piso con un perro lamiéndole el rostro."
Leer el post entero.
23.1.10
3.1.10
Starring Montgomery Clift
1.11.09
Foto del mes (25)
5.6.09
I Confess.- sesión de fotos con Anne Baxter
25.5.09
Colecçao Cinema.- mayo 1955
18.5.09
Cine Revue.- mayo 1953
Por otra parte, señalar que si bien en España se respetó el título original, en Francia se llamó La loi du silence (ques es como en España se llamó On the waterfront, de Marlon Brando).

28.3.09
I Confess.- rodaje (fotos)
24.3.09
18.3.09
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14.2.09
I Confess.- dvd
(English text)
Otto Kellar (O.E. Hasse) and his wife Alma (Dolly Hass) work as caretaker/gardner and housekeeper at a Catholic church in Canada. In the act of robbing a house where he occasionally gardens, Otto is surprised and inadvertently murders the owner. Torn with feelings of guilt and shame, he confesses to Father Michael William Logan (Montgomery Clift) back at the church. Police investigators don't look to Otto, instead begin to suspect Father Logan as he devoutly refuses to reveal what he has been told in the confessional.
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Theatrical Release: March 22nd, 1953 - USA
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DVD Review: Warner Home Video - Region 1- NTSC
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![]() | Also comes in The Alfred Hitchcock Signature Collection which includes - Strangers on a Train Two-Disc Edition / North by Northwest / Dial M for Murder / Foreign Correspondent / Suspicion / The Wrong Man / Stage Fright / I Confess / Mr. and Mrs. Smith | |
Distribution | Warner Home Video - Region 1- NTSC | |
Runtime | 1:34:27 | |
Video | 1.33:1 Original Aspect Ratio Average Bitrate: 5.54 mb/s NTSC 720x480 29.97 f/s | |
NOTE: The Vertical axis represents the bits transferred per second. The Horizontal is the time in minutes. | ||
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Audio | English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Dolby) | |
Subtitles | English, French, Spanish, None | |
Features | Release Information: Edition Details: • Featurette: "Hitchcock's Confession; A Look at 'I Confess'" (20:39) | |
Comments: | Again, we have virtual Criterion quality with these Warner Hitchcock releases. Stunning. Great contrast, perfect image quality etc. etc. This DVD is simply brilliant. |
Otto Kellar (O.E. Hasse) and his wife Alma (aaDolly Hass) work as caretaker/gardner and housekeeper at a Catholic church in Canada. In the act of robbing a house where he occasionally gardens, Otto is surprised and inadvertently murders the owner. Torn with feelings of guilt and shame, he confesses to Father Michael William Logan (Montgomery Clift) back at the church. Police investigators don't look to Otto, instead begin to suspect Father Logan as he devoutly refuses to reveal what he has been told in the confessional.
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1.11.08
Foto del mes (13)
23.3.08
I Confess.- crítica de Bosley Crowther (23 marzo 1953)
(English text)
The Screen in Review; 'I Confess', Hitchcock Drama of Priest's Dilemma Starring Clift, Opens at Paramount.
By BOSLEY CROWTHER
Alfred Hitchcock's famous talent for brewing a mood of fine suspense with clever direction and cutting is spent on a nigh suspenseless script in "I Confess," his latest picture for Warners, which opened at the Paramount on Saturday. And even though moments in the picture do have some tension and power, and the whole thing is scrupulously acted by a tightly professional cast, the consequence is an entertainment that tends to drag, sag and generally grow dull. It is not the sort of entertaiment that one hopefully expects of "Hitch."
The trouble, of course, is that the audience is told near the start of the film that the hero is not guilty of the murder with which he is subsequently charged. The murderer, we know, is a fellow who confesses his act right away to the irreproachable hero, a Roman Catholic priest. And the issue is in the dilemma of the priest, when suspicion falls on him and he is unable to clear himself in a jiffy because he is bound to silence by what is known as "the seal of the confessional."
This makes for a nervous situation that George Tabori and William Archibald have prolonged through a considerable amount of incidental plotting in their obviously padded script. They have ominously piled against their hero so much heavy circumstantial evidence that it seems he can never get around it and avoid the penalty of loyalty to a creed. But only the most credulous patron will be worried for very long that the hero will not be delivered from his dilemma by some saving grace. And this realization well unburdens the situation of any real suspense.
Meanwhile, the incidental plotting provides an excess of ponderous details having to do with a long-ago romance between the hero (before he became a priest) and a rather persistent young lady, now the wife of an eminent lawyer. The romance is blissfully innocent, and how it should ever serve as a reasonable basis for blackmail (as it is said to do), is difficult to see. In short, the plotting of the story through its long middle section is dull.
Finally, the off-beat possibility of making something of the anguish of the priest in this unhappy situation is not only missed in the script but it is barely realized and suggested in the performance of Montgomery Clift. Under Mr. Hitchcock's direction, Mr. Clift rather walks through the role with a slightly bewildered expression and a monotonously taciturn air. He seems neither tormented nor frightened—nor, for that matter, really to care.
As the matronly lady of the old romance, Anne Baxter gives an eloquent show of feeling sorry for herself and breathing heavily, but the ease with which she abandons both and resumes a dutiful attitude toward her husband (Roger Dann) is a bit disheartening. Karl Maiden as a stubborn detective, Brian Aherne as a prosecutor, O. E. Hasse as the twitching murderer and Dolly Haas as his wife are all good.
And, of course, Mr. Hitchcock does manage to inject little glints of imagery and invent little twists of construction that give the film the smooth, neat glitter of his style. Shot on location in Quebec, it has a certain atmospheric flavor, too. But it never gets up and goes places. It just ambles and drones along.
On the stage at the Paramount are Patti Page, Bobby Sargent, the Clark Brothers and Jerry Wald's band.
Ver web.
14.3.08
French Cards Collection
Cards released by CINE-PLUS in France in the early 1990s (also known as L'Encyclopedie du Cinema Stars De Toujours, Edito-Service S.A.).
Su carrera comprende 17 títulos entre 1948 y 1966. Trabajó con los grandes directores (Hawks, Hitchcock, Stevens, Zinnemann, Kazan, Huston, Wyler) y las grandes estrellas (Lancaster, Marilyn Monroe, Katherine Hepburn, Brando, Wayne, Elizabeth Taylor especialmente) de entonces.
Su carrera comprende 17 títulos entre 1948 y 1966. Trabajó con los grandes directores (Hawks, Hitchcock, Stevens, Zinnemann, Kazan, Huston, Wyler) y las grandes estrellas (Lancaster, Marilyn Monroe, Katherine Hepburn, Brando, Wayne, Elizabeth Taylor especialmente) de entonces.
Say, where did I see this guy?
In red river?
Or a place in the sun?
Maybe the misfits?
Or from here to eternity?
Everybody say, is he all right?
And everybody say, whats he like?
Everybody say, he sure looks funny.
Thats...Montgomery Clift, honey!
New York, New York, New York, 42nd street
Hustlers rustle and pimps pimp the beat
Monty Clift is recognized at dawn
He aint got no shoes and his clothes are torn
I see a car smashed at night
Cut the applause and dim the light
Monty's face is broken on a wheel
Is he alive? can he still feel?
Everybody say, is he all right?
And everybody say, whats he like?
Everybody say, he sure looks funny.
Thats...Montgomery Clift, honey!
Nembutol numbs it all
But I prefer alcohol
He said go out and get me my old movie stills
Go out and get me another roll of pills
There I go again shaking, but I aint got the chills