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True Confession (1937)

True Confession poster
Directed by
Wesley Ruggles
Genre
screwball comedy film, crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 25m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 23 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman lies in court to confess to a murder she did not commit. Her husband, a straight-laced lawyer, must defend her.

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What happens

True Confession is a 1937 American screwball comedy film directed by Wesley Ruggles and starring Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, and John Barrymore. It was based on the 1934 play Mon Crime, written by Georges Berr and Louis Verneuil. In 1946 it was remade as Cross My Heart. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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