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True Confession (1937)

Comedy | 85 minutes
2,50 9 votes

Genre: Comedy

Duration: 85 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Wesley Ruggles

Starst: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray and John Barrymore

IMDb score: 6,6 (1.863)

Releasedate: 24 December 1937

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True Confession plot

"THEY'RE ON ANOTHER BENDER!"

Helen and Ken are a pretty strange couple. She's a pathological liar, and he's a scrupulously honest (and therefore successful) lawyer...

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BBarbie

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Extremely weak film with a weak story (primary school theater level) and over-the-top acting across the board. In fact, the often underrated Una Merkel is the only one in this film who acts somewhat normally.

Very quickly forgotten.

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Dutchfan

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The character that Carole Lombard plays in this film is so annoying that it is almost impossible to have any kind of sympathy for her.

Fred Macmurray isn't much better as Lombard's wimpy husband.

John Barrymore was so heavily addicted to alcohol at the time of this film that he was constantly drunk and had to read his lines from text boards. Despite that, he plays his role well, despite the fact that he was clearly drunk during the recording.

Una Merkel is good.

Carole Lombard may be a legendary star, but she has only made three significant films: “Twentieth Century”, “My man Godfrey” and “To be or not to Be”, these films were praised, but they are not real classics. .

Of the other films she made, only a few were real box office successes.

“True Confession” is a lame, very unlikely comedy that is actually not worth watching.

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clubsport

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Not a high-flyer, this comedy about Lombard who simply cannot resist lying and almost drives husband MacMurray to despair.

Still, the film does have its comedic moments, of course none of it can be taken seriously, but as a couple Lombard and Macmurray are quite a funny couple.

Una Merkel plays Lombard's girlfriend and she is quite nice in her supportive role.

The courtroom part is not well developed and the comedy part goes way off track here.

It is clear that it should not be taken too seriously, but the plot very easily tries to ignore the more serious parts.

Ultimately, it's a nice comedy, but certainly nothing more than that.

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