The Confessional

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<B>*Blood* *Violent* *Strong Language* *Brief Nudity* *No Sexual Situations*</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>1975/Color/104 Min./Prism Entertainment & Peter Walker (Heritage) ltd. & Joseph Brenner Associates, Inc./Great Britain/Rated R</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director............Pete Walker (The Flesh and Blood Show, Schizo)</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay......David McGillivray</B></div> <div> <B>Music...............Stanley Myers</B></div> <div> <B>Producer..........Pete Walker</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer....</B></div> <div> <B>From an Original Story by Peter Walker</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Fr. Cutler..Anthony Sharp</B></div> <div> <B>Jenny.......Susan Penhaligon (Patrick, The Uncanny)  </B></div> <div> <B>Vanessa.....Stephanie Beacham (And Now the Screaming Starts, Nightcomers) Terry.......Norman Eshley </B></div> <div> <B>Miss Bevan..Sheila Keith  </B></div> <div> <B>Fr. Duggan..Mervyn Jones</B></div> <div> <B>(Not        Andrew Sachs (Romance with a Double Bass)</B></div> <div> <B> Available) Bill Kerr (Coca Cola Kid, The Year of Living Dangerously)</B></div> <div> <B>            Hilda Barry</B></div> <div> <B>            Stewart Bevan</B></div> <div> <B>            Julia McCarthy</B></div> <div> <B>            Don Yule</B></div> <div> <B>            Victor Winding</B></div> <div> <B>            Kim Butcher</B></div> <div> <B>            Jack Allen</B></div> <div> <B>            Ivor Salter</B></div> <div> <B>            Jane Wayward</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: Not a great print. We are certainly intrigued by the events in the beginning. Tension is nicely built up as we wonder whether the priest was responsible for the attack or for the suicide. Nicely put together. This film is in the long tradition of corruption in the church and of the ability of the clergy to stand above reproach. I wonder if we could have been left in the dark a bit more about who the culprit is. Too much stumbling around in the dark.  The cowering Meltram is fairly convincing.  The implied finishing of the job doesn't make it. What will Father Cutler make of Jenny's demise? Apparently they just ran out of film. This one should be a hit for father Porter enthusiasts. By the way, does this guy look like George C. Scott or what?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: Valerie Davies arrives home distressed. She frantically searches for her missile and then scribbles something down. When her parents go to see what's wrong, she has leaped to her death below. A young priest, Bernard Cutler, almost runs over a young woman. They recognize each other and go for a cup of coffee. She mentions to him that things aren't going well with her boyfriend. Her boyfriend is in the process of moving on when she goes up to see him. She storms out of the house. She goes to see Father Cutler at the church but he isn't there. As she enters the dark church, the music indicates there's something wrong here. While others are at prayer, Valerie goes to the confession, no longer sure why she had come. The priest gets her to confess. The priest pushes her on how long it had been since she had been intimate with him. She admits she had an abortion. When he tries to get her to say more or to come back the next day she hurries out. She goes out to make a call and he follows her. Father Cutler moves in. She and Cutler get in via a hidden key, but the priest who has been following her sees where the key was hidden. She admits to a friend Bob that she went to confession. She says the priest was a bit weird. She goes out for some cigarettes, leaving Bob in the apartment. Someone goes and picks up the keys from the hiding place. Bob has put on some headphones. Gloved hands are seen coming up the staircase. When Jenny returns the key is gone. The intruder advances on him and Bob is helpless. She arrives to find his face horribly burned by hot water. She follows someone into one of the rooms and sees a cross and runs out to find her mother and Father Cutler. The claim is that the pot had blown up. In spite of the discrepancies of the locked and unlocked door they let the matter go. Father Nolan had called saying that she had left her keys. He has them at the presbyter. But why does father Nolan know to whom the keys belong? She goes to the presbyter where Father Nolan sends out two weeping adolescents. She comes about the keys, but the father wants to talk about her being defiled. She finds that he had taped her admission in the confession all about the abortion and that he is threatening to go to her family about it unless she "follows the path of righteousness" with him. Miss Battison is a dark looking woman who is very interested in this case. Terry the boyfriend has since returned and in spite of her recent claims, she accepts him with open arms. Father Nolan is very against the movement against celibacy in the Catholic church. Father Cutler thinks him behind the times. Mrs. Davies comes about her daughter Valerie. She says she knows that her daughter went to him every night and that she would come home in tears. He tells her that she was pregnant and that's what they were discussing. Terry goes to confront Meltram about Jenny. When Meltram finds out who he is, he disappears leaving Terry alone in the Presbyter. Meltram comes at him with a torch and pretty soon he's dragging out the remains. Mrs. Davies watches as Terry is buried behind the presbyter. Miss Bevison tells Meltram that he should wipe his feet if he's been to the graveyard. He's trailed mud into the house. His senile mother lives in the presbyter and explains that he is feeling urges which he had put aside until now. Jenny reminds him of "her". It appears that Bevison tortures his mother in some way while he's away. Jenny hears something going on down stairs and goes to investigate. She finds that the door has been left open. The next day, Father Cutler goes to see Meltram about the tape. Meltram claims she is lying. Meltram shows Cutler a tape of his notes concerning Jenny. He is convinced that Jenny is confused. Terry visits Robert in the hospital who tries to signal to her who it was. Meltram shows up there as well and attacks her. She gets away, but Meltram is left alone with Bob. When the nurses return, Bob is dead. Meanwhile, Cutler has taken on with Jenny's sister Vanessa. Cutler has decided to leave the church. Mrs. Davies goes to Jenny and they agree to meet. Vanessa tells Jenny that Robert's dead and she gets hysterical. Again no one believes her. A detective drives her around but he too believes father Meltram. Mrs. Davies goes to take confession from Meltram and suddenly she is suffocating. She dies of a heart attack. Father Cutler is suspicious. When Jenny sees Mrs. Davies is dead, she becomes hysterical. Next thing you know Jenny is sedated again. Meltram calls mistaking Vanessa for Jenny. He plays the tape over the phone and Vanessa knows the truth. Foolishly, Vanessa goes herself to get the tape. Meltram appears to be losing his grip muttering about cleansing rain. Vanessa climbs through a window into the presbyter. She cowers as Miss Bevison torments the old woman. Vanessa gets a message from her that says "help me my son is mad'. Just then Meltram comes in. He comes at her with a rosary. Bevison enters and seems at ease with what she finds. She suggests that the old woman be administered her last rites. Meanwhile, Cutler who has grown suspicious digs up Terry. Meltram pulls out the poison Eucharist. Meltram admits that Bevison was the woman who had tempted him before. Father Cutler arrives at the presbyter but it appears he's too late. He finds first the old woman dead and then Vanessa. He finds that Bevison is dead as well. Meltram fools Cutler into thinking that Bevison did all the killing. Meltram keeps smooth talking and Cutler agrees to be involved in the cover up. Meltram calls Jenny to be sure she's home and heads out to finish the job.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>