True Confession

True Confession (1937)

THEY'RE ON ANOTHER BENDER!

A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she can't seem to make up her mind as to whether she "dunnit" or not.

Date of release
1937-12-24
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (23)
Runtime
1h 25m
Genres
Comedy, Romance, Crime
Director
Wesley Ruggles

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Mon crime

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.

Production Code controversy

Hollywood film studios Production Code Administration director Joseph Breen registered a complaint with Paramount Pictures, charging the filmmakers with encouraging a licentious attitude towards the court system. In particular, True Confession was deemed to present perjury (as exhibited by Carole Lombard's character Helen Bartlett), as an evasion of "the processes of law" and of depicting legal scenes that were a "travesty on the courts and the a…

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