The Stranger / The Trial

Two-disc set of Orson Welles classics open with the suspenseful thriller in which escaped Nazi war criminal Welles becomes a teacher in a Connecticut college town, with Edward G. Robinson as a federal agent tracking him down. Features a memorable final chase in an old clock tower; with Loretta Young. Next, writer/director Welles turns Franz Kafka's "unfilmable" novel into a gripping drama, as simple clerk Anthony Perkins is abducted and charged with an unknown crime by a labyrinthine bureaucracy. With Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, and Welles as Perkins' defense advocate. Also included is Welles' rarely-seen first film, the 1934 short "Hearts of Age." Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital 5.1; audio commentary; "making of" documentary; theatrical trailers; photo gallery.