The Trial
film by Welles [1962]
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discussed in biography
- In Orson Welles: Later films: Chimes at Midnight, The Other Side of the Wind, and F for Fake
He made The Trial (1962) in Europe. Franz Kafka’s novel of existential dread was a good match for Welles’s baroque pessimism, and, indeed, Welles considered it one of his best. Anthony Perkins (convincingly anguished as Joseph K.), Welles (formidable as Hastler, the advocate), Jeanne Moreau, and Romy
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role of Perkins
- In Anthony Perkins
…several films in Europe, including The Trial (1963), The Champagne Murders (1968), and Ten Days Wonder (1972), and in such American films as Pretty Poison (1968), Catch-22 (1970), and WUSA (1970). Some of his other screen credits include The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972),
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