Full Confession

Full Confession
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	John Farrow
Produced by	Robert Sisk
Written by	Jerome Cady (screenplay) Leo Birinski (story)
Starring	Victor McLaglen Sally Eilers Barry Fitzgerald Joseph Calleia
Music by	Roy Webb
Cinematography	J. Roy Hunt
Edited by	Harry Marker
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release dates	September 8, 1939 (1939-09-08)
Running time	78 mins
Country	United States
Language	English

Full Confession is a 1939 is a US crime drama film made by RKO Radio Pictures. It was directed by John Farrow from an adaptation by Jerome Cady of Leo Birinski's story.

The film stars Victor McLaglen, Sally Eilers, Barry Fitzgerald and Joseph Calleia.

The film was made in Black and White.

Plot

Pat McGinnis (Victor McLaglen) murders a policeman and escapes by committing a more minor crime, for which he is arrested and jailed. An innocent man, Michael O'Keefe (Barry Fitzgerald), is convicted of the murder and sentenced to death. While delirious after an injury, McGinnis confesses to priest Father Loma (Joseph Calleia). Loma, whose flock includes McGinnis's girlriend Molly Sullivan (Sally Eilers) as well as the O'Keefe clan, struggles to find a way to save O'Keefe without violating the sanctity of confession. He must convince McGinnis to give himself up.

Cast

Victor McLaglen as Pat McGinnis
Sally Eilers as Molly Sullivan
Joseph Calleia as Father Loma
Barry Fitzgerald as Michael O'Keefe
Elisabeth Risdon as Norah O'Keefe
Pamela Blake as Laura Mahoney (as Adele Pearce)
Malcolm 'Bud' McTaggart as Frank O'Keefe
John Bleifer as Weaver
William Haade as Moore
George Humbert as Mercantonio

Notes

Full Confession is often regarded as a semi-remake of John Ford's The Informer (1935) starring the same leading man, Victor McLaglen.^[1]

References

↑ http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/75814/Full-Confession/articles.html

External links

Full Confession at the Internet Movie Database
Full Confession at AllMovie
Full Confession at the TCM Movie Database
Full Confession at the American Film Institute Catalog

Films directed by John Farrow

The Spectacle Maker (1934)
Tarzan Escapes (1936)
Men in Exile (1937)
West of Shanghai (1937)
She Loved a Fireman (1937)
Comet Over Broadway (1938)
Broadway Musketeers (1938)
Little Miss Thoroughbred (1938)
The Invisible Menace (1938)
My Bill (1938)
Reno (1939)
Sorority House (1939)
Five Came Back (1939)
Full Confession (1939)
Women in the Wind (1939)
The Saint Strikes Back (1939)
A Bill of Divorcement (1940)
Married and in Love (1940)
Wake Island (1942)
Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942)
China (1943)
The Hitler Gang (1944)
You Came Along (1945)
Two Years Before the Mast (1946)
California (1947)
Blaze of Noon (1947)
Calcutta (1947)
Easy Come, Easy Go (1947)
Beyond Glory (1948)
The Big Clock (1948)
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)
Red, Hot and Blue (1949)
Alias Nick Beal (1949)
Where Danger Lives (1950)
Copper Canyon (1950)
Submarine Command (1951)
His Kind of Woman (1951)
Ride, Vaquero! (1953)
Hondo (1953)
Plunder of the Sun (1953)
Botany Bay (1953)
A Bullet Is Waiting (1954)
The Sea Chase (1955)
Back from Eternity (1956)
The Unholy Wife (1957)
John Paul Jones (1959)

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