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Constructing a priest, silencing a saint: The PCA and I Confess (1953)

2007; Indiana University Press; Volume: 19; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2979/fil.2007.19.1.58

1553-3905

Amy Lawrence,

Art History and Market Analysis

Alfred Hitchcock's I Confess was based on Paul Anthelme's 1902 play Nos Deux Consciences. Hitchcock began working on the film in 1947 but had great difficulty in fashioning a script which met both his requirements and those of various other interested parties, including the Production Code Administration and the Roman Catholic Church. The paper traces the compromised development of the project through to its location filming in Quebec in 1952, and suggests that problems with the film cited by Robin Wood and others can be traced to this troubled development process.