title: Confession (Playhouse 90)
text: # Confession (Playhouse 90)
  
  "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.
  
  ## Plot
  
  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.
  
  ## Cast
  
  The cast of Confession included the following:
  
  * Dennis O'Keefe as Ben Birch
  * June Lockhart as Amy Mathewson
  * Paul Stewart as Martin Hoeffer
  * Romney Brent as Toby Mathewson
  * Henry Daniell as Hubbel
  * Ivan Triesault as Carl Kersch
  * Charles Watts as Emerson Fricke
  * John Crawford as Gunman
  * Chet Stratton as Bergstrom
  * Jason Johnson as Watchman
  
  Robert Preston hosted the broadcast.
  
  ## Production
  
  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).
  
  Eva Wolas was the producer and Anton M. Leader the director. Devery Freeman wrote the script. Gert Andersen was the director of photography and Henry Batista the editor.
  
  The film was broadcast on Thursday, November 29, 1956, from 9:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.
  
  ## Reception
  
  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."
  
  