dated, and a dud (Spoilers)

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It occurred to me too while watching the film that Logan could have spoken up without violating the seal of the confessional. However, several IMDB users have pointed out in their reviews that the seal of the confessional extends further than actually revealing the contents of the confession, to even alluding to it in any way.

The OP does not demonstrate in what way the movie is "dated". What does he mean?

no it's not there is a hole in your head

Well, Hitch set up the killer as mentally unstable so you know he will be caught. I love the shot of the movie Sometimes I believe Hitchcock portrays the cops as single-minded, so caught up in getting to the end that they miss the smaller significant details. I also agree that he could say more about why he wouldn't answer the questions. But each priest interprets his vows personally. I liked the prosecutor. Hitch also shows the nasty side of humanity. How we want to believe the worst in someone, without proof of honesty. However, we who have faith in religion never need proof. This was a movie about faith and how we can believe the in the best without proof and in the worst without proof.

If this movie had tried to portray a man in conflict, instead of the priest in conflict, it might have worked better. But still Hitch would have made us gave up the priest because of our preconceived notions of who they are. That power we give them over us. For Hitch to challenge a priest and then pick him apart was hard to watch.

she loved poetry and romance, but she hit the glass ceiling at birth

I think there's more to it than just Father Logan's professional vow to secrecy of the confessional; I think Father Logan felt somewhat guilty himself for this crime that someone else committed.

Father Logan had fought in a war, so he has probably has killed people. Due to the horrors of war, he may have developed a mentality in which he thinks some people do deserve to be killed. Furthermore, Villette was making life difficult for him and for the woman he still has feelings for (despite the fact he has vowed for celibacy). Who knows what ideas have gone through his head about his upcoming appointment with Villette and what he was praying to God for that night in church. And then enters Keller, who reveals that he has just done that what Logan might have wished to do, and which solves Logan's (and Anne's) problems in one whoop. It's as if God has heard and answered Logan's prayers; all because Logan wanted to hide the extra-marital affair (we only have Anne's words to believe that nothing had really happened between them) and his impure thoughts, and get away with it.

So in that light, Father Logan had some soul-searching of his own to do, and question his own situation and how to interpret the signs that God was sending him. And the title "I Confess" is not about Keller coming clean (Keller is just a minor side character), but about the main character, Father Logan, coming clean with his own principles and morality.

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"A hole in the script."

Thereby proving that not only didn't you do your research about the vow of silence but also that you didn't understand the point of the film in the least.

Hitchcock would have labeled you one of the "plausibles" meaning a dullard.