Full Confession (1939)

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Country: USA
Genres: Crime, Drama
Release: 1939-09-08
Director: John Farrow (I) (1904–1963)
Writers: Leo Birinsky , Jerome Cady
Language: English
Stars: Victor McLaglen , Sally Eilers , Joseph Calleia , Barry Fitzgerald (I) (1888–1961) , Elisabeth Risdon , Pamela Blake , Malcolm ‘Bud’ McTaggart , John Bleifer , William Haade , George Humbert
Runtime: 78 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Segreto mortale (Italy) , Confessió completa (Spain) , Full Confession , Tredje graden (Sweden) , Full Confession (United States of America) , A Última Confissão (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Arrepentido (Spain) , A Última Confissão (Brazil) , O katadikos (Greece)
Plot: Pat Sullivan has committed a murder and told his priest, Father Loma, about it watches in agony when an innocent man, Michal O'Keefe, is accused of the crime and sentenced to the electric chair on circumstantial evidence. The priest, bound by inviolable sanctity of the confessional, also struggles with the issue of how to save O'Keefe, and keep his religious vows.
IMDB:tt0031353