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Synopsis. After a wealthy businessman is found dead, reporter Philip Trent is sent to investigate. Against the police conclusions, he suspects the assumed suicide is really a murder, and becomes ...
Trent's Last Case is a 1929 American sound part-talkie Pre-Code detective film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Raymond Griffith, Marceline Day, Raymond Hatton, and Donald Crisp. It was released by Fox Film Corporation. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and ...
Michael Wilding takes up "Trent's Last Case" in this 1952 film directed by Herbert Wilcox for Republic Studios. It's British with a British cast that includes Margaret Lockwood, John McCallum, Hugh McDermott, and one American, Orson Welles, who was probably trying to raise money for a project. Trent is an artist and also an amateur detective.
Trent's Last Case -- (Movie Clip) Never Cultivate A Luxury An hour into the film, in a flashback, the first appearance of Orson Welles as the deceased Sigsbee Manderson, questioning his secretary Marlowe (John McCallum) and wife (Margaret Lockwood), in Trent's Last Case, 1953, from the E.C. Bentley novel.
Sep 21, 2013 · His detective novel, Trent's Last Case (1913), [4] was much praised, numbering Dorothy L. Sayers among its admirers, and with its labyrinthine and mystifying plotting can be seen as the first truly modern mystery. It was adapted as a film in 1920, 1929, and 1952.
Shop Trent's Last Case [DVD] [1952]. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Trent's Last Case [DVD] [1952]: Amazon.co.uk: Michael Wilding, Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles, John McCallum, Miles Malleson, Hugh McDermott, Jack McNaughton, Sam Kydd, Herbert Wilcox, Michael Wilding, Margaret Lockwood, Herbert Wilcox, Pamela Bower ...
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Sep 14, 2014 · Producer/director Herbert Wilcox’s involving and diverting 1952 British movie version of E C Bentley’s classic 1913 detective novel Trent’s Last Case is made efficiently and briskly, but in basic fashion and without much particular style or flair or hold on suspense. The film’s drawing-room tone is rather lighthearted for a murder ...
