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Confession (1937)

Confession poster
Directed by
Joe May
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 27m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 18 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman becomes entangled in a courtroom drama that revisits a passionate past. The story unfolds through flashbacks and revelations about a crime and its emotional consequences.

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What happens

Confession is a 1937 American drama film directed by Joe May and starring Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, Basil Rathbone and Jane Bryan. It was a scene-for-scene remake of the 1935 German film Mazurka starring Pola Negri, which Warner Bros. Pictures acquired the American distribution rights for and then shelved in favor of the remake. With an estimated $513,000 budget, it started production in March 1937 and was released August 19, 1937 in New York City. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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