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May 1, 2015

Reel Law

Reel Law: Legal Moments at the Movie House

"[I]f you've got the right eye for these things, you can pick out an accused man in the largest crowd. It's just something about them, something attractive."

Advocate Albert Hastler (Orson Welles, left) sizes up Josef K. (Anthony Perkins), an accused man trapped in a legal dystopia in The Trial (1962).

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