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`Trial' Verdict: Kafka's Terror Tamed, But So Is Impact

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19940408
Author:Roger Ebert

THE TRIAL (STAR)(STAR) 1/2 Josef K. Kyle MacLachlan The Priest Anthony Hopkins Huld Jason Robards Directed by David Jones. Based on the novel by Franz Kafka. Running Time: 120 minutes. No MPAA rating (mature themes). Opening today at the Fine Arts.

Hitchcock said that most of his films were really about the same thing, the Innocent Man Wrongly Accused.

These days audiences do not have the patience to follow a man as he fights against persecution; the films of our time are about the Innocent Man Wrongly Blown Away and Immediately Forgotten. When the theme does find ...

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