| Series: | Playhouse 90 |
| Season: | 1 |
| Episode: | 9 |
| Director: | Anton M. Leader |
| Photographer: | Gert Andersen |
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| Prev: | Eloise |
| Next: | Made in Heaven |
"Confession" is an American television play broadcast on November 29, 1956, as part of the CBS television series, Playhouse 90. It was the ninth episode of the first season of Playhouse 90.
A reporter, Ben Birch, is assigned to write about the life a recently-deceased civic leader. He ends up uncovering a major public fraud perpetrated by the deceased man and wins the hand of the man's daughter, Amy Mathewson.
The cast of Confession included the following:
Robert Preston hosted the broadcast.
The film was produced by Screen Gems. It was the second film that Screen Gems made for Playhouse 90 (the first being The Country Husband).[1]
Eva Wolas was the producer and Anton M. Leader the director. Devery Freeman wrote the script.[2] [1] Gert Andersen was the director of photography and Henry Batista the editor.[3]
The film was broadcast on Thursday, November 29, 1956, from 9:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.[1]
In The New York Times, Richard F. Shepard wrote that it "displayed activity enough to avoid being characterized as a familiar complete bore. But it surely was familiar."[4]