The Sensational Casilla Trial (German: Sensationsprozess Casilla) is a 1939 German crime drama film directed by Eduard von Borsody and starring Heinrich George, Jutta Freybe and Albert Hehn. It was shot at the Berlin studios of Carl Froelich and on location around the city. The film's sets were designed by the art director Carl Ludwig Kirmse. It is considered an anti-American propaganda film attacking the American way of life, partly due to its closeness to Britain with which Germany went to war the same year.
On a flight from Dakar to Casablanca when the two pilots have fallen ill, the prisoner Peter Roland is called into action to fly into safely. Roland is a young German his way to face trial for the kidnapping and murder of the child star Binnie Casilla in 1928. In gratitude for saving him and his daughter Jessie during the flight, the top lawyer Vandegrift agrees to organise his legal defence in the trial in New York City. He makes it clear that Binnie's manipulative stepmother Sylvia had made her life a misery, exploiting her popular fame for her own financial benefit. Roland had taken Binnie away, but only to her out of her mother's clutches and away to safety. Jessie, by now in love with Roland, travels to South America to fetch the now adult Binnie to produce her in court. The sharp-witted Vandegrift is then able to overcome Sylvia's protests that the young woman is not the same as the kidnapped child.