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True Confession

Play trailer Poster for True Confession 1937,  1h 25m,  Comedy Play Trailer Watchlist
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A lawyer (Fred MacMurray) defends his lying wife (Carole Lombard) for murder, then finds out she was innocent all along.

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Roy Chartier Variety May 6, 2020
True Confession is a rather entertaining picture, the various faults or shortcomings of which should not hamper it at the box office. Go to Full Review
Frank S. Nugent New York Times May 5, 2020
Although True Confession had a pulpwood sound, it proved yesterday to be a highly polished, smoothly grained Yule log which deserves to crackle right merrily... from now until well after Christmas. Go to Full Review
TIME Staff TIME Magazine May 5, 2020
True Confession is skillfully played and paced, keyed up to the pitch of the dizziest haywire skit. Yet what makes True Confession funnier than most haywire comedies is that as melodrama it could be just as effective. Go to Full Review
Ann Ross Maclean's Magazine May 6, 2020
Fred MacMurray as the husband who couldn't tell a lie, and Carole Lombard as the wife who did it with her little hatchet, are both exceptionally good, but the picture owes its peculiar hobgoblin quality to John Barrymore as the eccentric crime expert. Go to Full Review
Josephine O'Neill Daily Telegraph (Australia) May 6, 2020
Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray are an excellent team, but the most absurd of all the film's clowns is ex-Lothario John Barrymore. Go to Full Review
James T. Hamada The Nippu Jiji (Honolulu) May 6, 2020
The film is a nutty, lunatic comedy. Go to Full Review
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Cast & Crew

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Wesley Ruggles

Director

Carole Lombard

Helen Bartlett

Fred MacMurray

Kenneth Bartlett

John Barrymore

Charles "Charley" Jasper

Una Merkel

Daisy McClure

Porter Hall

Mr. Hartman

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True Confession

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Movie Info

Synopsis A lawyer (Fred MacMurray) defends his lying wife (Carole Lombard) for murder, then finds out she was innocent all along.
Director
Wesley Ruggles
Producer
Albert Lewin
Screenwriter
Claude Binyon
Production Co
Paramount Pictures
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 8, 2020
Runtime
1h 25m
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