Aug 18
Trial of Daniel Westhof (1928)
I just found out that there was a 1928 German film titled "Trial of Daniel Westhof." The name is spelled with one "f" but I still thought it was cool. Please see the Plot Summary below:Veteran German actor-writer Fritz Wendhausen assumes the mantle of director for The Trial of Daniel Westhof. The title character is a trouble-prone patsy who ends up being accused of murder. All he'd wanted to do was prevent the marriage of the heroine to a nasty moneylender, but things turned ugly when the villain ended up dead. At his trial, Westhof looks like a dead duck, but suddenly the hard-nosed prosecuting attorney breaks down and confesses that it was he, and not Daniel, who committed the crime. Strange, strange stuff, made stranger by the implication that the "hero" is a half-wit. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
