Trent's Last Case (1929 film)

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Trent's Last Case
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Directed by Howard Hawks
Written by W. Scott Darling
Malcolm Stuart Boylan
Beulah Marie Dix
Based on Trent's Last Case by E. C. Bentley
Produced by William Fox
Bertram Millhauser
Starring Raymond Griffith
Marceline Day
Raymond Hatton
Donald Crisp
Cinematography Harold Rosson
Production
company
Distributed byFox Film Corporation
Release date
  • March 31, 1929 (1929-03-31)
Running time
66 minutes
CountryUnited States
Language Sound (Synchronized)
(English Intertitles)

Trent's Last Case is a 1929 American Synchronized sound 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. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the sound-on-film Movietone process. [1]

Contents

The film is based on the 1913 novel Trent's Last Case by British writer E. C. Bentley. A previous version starring Clive Brook was filmed in the UK in 1920 and released by Stoll Film Company.

Premise

A leading financier is found dead at his home, leading amateur detective Philip Trent to investigate the case.

Cast

Preservation status

According to Silent Era, a print exists. [2] An incomplete print is held by the Library of Congress. [3] [4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ BFI Database
  2. ↑ SilentEra entry
  3. ↑ The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:Trent's Last Case
  4. ↑ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, (<-book title) p.189 c.1978 by The American Film Institute
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