THE PRICE OF ADMISSION

They say the truth will set you free, but it'll send her to prison.

Written, directed, produced by, and co-starring Hugo Haas, One Girl’s Confession is a morality play that ponders the role of fate in people’s lives. Imagine a man leaving his house and stopping for a few moments to help a boy retrieve a ball. Ten minutes later a flower pot falls from a highrise balcony and crushes his skull. If he hadn’t stopped to help the boy the pot would have missed him by ten feet. Terrible luck. But at his work that day there’s a natural gas explosion, which would have killed him anyway.

That’s the type of idea Haas plays with. He has Cleo Moore in the lead role as a woman who steals $25,000, wants to use the money to get ahead, but various metaphorical flower pots keep landing on her head. Maybe wealth just isn’t in the cards. On the other hand, it’s possible the fault, as they say, is not in her stars, but in her self. Helene Stanton plays a crucial support role, tipping the balance of fate at just the right moment, and Glenn Langan plays Moore’s love interest.

One Girl’s Confession is just a b-movie, but it manages to elevate itself above its ilk thanks to a charismatic lead performer. A seventy-four minute running time doesn’t hurt either, as the curtain falls just before as central idea begins to wear thin. You probably have worse movies in your queue, so adding this one can’t hurt. Maybe it’ll help you avoid a flower pot. One Girl’s Confession premiered in the U.S. today in 1953.

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1964—Mass Student Arrests in U.S.

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December 3

1968—U.S. Unemployment Hits Low

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1954—Joseph McCarthy Disciplined by Senate

In the United States, after standing idly by during years of communist witch hunts in Hollywood and beyond, the U.S. Senate votes 65 to 22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for conduct bringing the Senate into dishonor and disrepute. The vote ruined McCarthy’s career.

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1955—Rosa Parks Sparks Bus Boycott

In the U.S., in Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city’s racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The boycott resulted in a crippling financial deficit for the Montgomery public transit system, because the city’s African-American population were the bulk of the system’s ridership.

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1936—Crystal Palace Gutted by Fire

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