The whole idea of the film is that a murderer comes to a priest and confesses having killed someone, then tries to get the priest falsely suspected of committing the killing himself. The priest comes close to being convicted and executed for the murder, because he can never say or do anything based on the confession he heard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Confess_%28film%29
The whole idea of the film is that a murderer comes to a priest and confesses having killed someone, then tries to get the priest falsely suspected of committing the killing himself. The priest comes close to being convicted and executed for the murder, because he can never say or do anything based on the confession he heard.