True Confession
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.
Plot
Helen Bartlett is the wife of lawyer with high principles Ken Bartlett. She is a fiction "writer" but is not making any progress on her book. It is unclear why, but currently, Ken's criminal law practice is in a slump; still, he refuses to defend anyone whom he knows is guilty. As a matter of pride he also refuses to have his wife take a job. He also demands honesty ... but Helen's habit of lying turns out to be her downfall.
More details
| author | Claude Binyon |
|---|---|
| director | Wesley Ruggles |
| editor | Paul Weatherwax |
| genre | comedy crime |
| keywords | botched robbery buy criminal law id kill nothing suspect |
| musicBy | Sam Coslow |
| producer | Albert Lewin |
| productionCompany | Paramount Pictures |
| publisher | Paramount Pictures |
| theme | screwball comedy |