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Trial is a 1955 American drama film directed by Mark Robson and starring Glenn Ford, Dorothy McGuire, Arthur Kennedy, John Hodiak, Katy Jurado, Rafael Campos, and Juano Hernandez.
Trial: Directed by Mark Robson. With Glenn Ford, Dorothy McGuire, Arthur Kennedy, John Hodiak. Courtroom drama set in 1947 and underlying post-WW2 acute problems facing the USA such as stormy race relations and the growing threat of local communism.
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- Drama
- Mark Robson
- 1955-10-07
Trial is a very powerful film with a believable story line, revolving around a young Mexican/American boy accused in the death of a teenage girl with a heart condition, the death being caused by an alleged sexual assault.
A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters.
- Mark Robson, Robert Saunders
- Glenn Ford
The Trial (French: Le Procès) is a 1962 drama film written and directed by Orson Welles, based on the 1925 posthumously published novel of the same name by Franz Kafka. Welles stated immediately after completing the film: "The Trial is the best film I have ever made".
When Mexican-American Angel Chavez (Rafael Campos) is arrested for murder on weak evidence, David Blake (Glenn Ford) agrees to defend him to gain the courtroom experience necessary for law school...
- Drama
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In director Mark Robson's and MGM's courtroom crime drama with themes of bigotry, hypocrisy and political extremism - it was adapted from screenwriter Don Mankiewicz's own 1955 novel of the same name (that was also published by Harper's); it told about a controversial trial held after an Hispanic boy was arrested for the death of a Caucasian ...
