One Girl's Confession

One Girl's Confession
Directed by	Hugo Haas
Produced by	Hugo Haas
Written by	Hugo Haas
Starring	Cleo Moore Hugo Haas Glenn Langan Ellen Stansbury Anthony Jochim Burt Mustin
Music by	Václav Divina
Cinematography	Paul Ivano
Editing by	Merrill G. White
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	April 6, 1953
Running time	74 min
Country	United States
Language	English

One Girl's Confession is a 1953 low-budget film noir released by Columbia Pictures. The movie stars Cleo Moore and was written, produced, and directed by Hugo Haas who also plays a supporting part in the film. This film was released on DVD by Sony Pictures in 2010 as part of the Bad Girls of Film Noir Volume II collection.

Background

Cleo Moore plays a waitress in a waterfront bar. One night, she climbs in the bedroom window of her cantankerous old employer and steals $25,000 from under his pillow. The next morning, the police arrive to which she surprisingly confesses her crime saying that her father had been swindled by the hood years before. The money however, is not recovered and she is sent to prison for five years, until good behavior and an even better attitude earn her an early release. While out on parole, she gets yet another job waitressing on the waterfront. The owner of this bar, (played by Hugo Haas), is a foreign scoundrel father figure type. She is a bit un-trusting of everyone since she believes, rightly so, that she will most likely be followed by the police in order to recover the money. The days go by, she meets a nice fisherman, and soon begins to entertain thoughts of helping her new boyfriend with a business loan. Things go awry when her boss nearly loses the bar in a card game, prompting her to tell him she will give him enough money to delay the debtors. She, however, is unable to pick up the cash and draws him a map to the wooded area where she buried the loot. He realizes this is the same girl that stole money from her infamous employer three years ago on this same waterfront dock, and tells her. She trusts him anyway but on his return, he reports bitterly that he cannot find the money and throws her out of his home. Some days later, she finds the bar is under new ownership and the boyfriend is worried about her. Upon closer inspection, the bar is under the SAME ownership and it is reported that the Owner has taken a vacation and moved into fancy new digs, apparently finding the money after all. With vengeance in her heart, she sets out confront him, and her money back. Things however, are not always what they seem......

External links

• One Girl's Confession at the Internet Movie Database