Trent's Last Case (1929)
- Directed by
- Howard Hawks
- Genre
- silent film, crime film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 06m
- Rating
- 8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A detective investigates a wealthy businessman's death. The case involves a locked room and a complicated financial scheme.
quietmethodicalold-fashionedmysteriousatmosphericdeliberateunderstated
What happens
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. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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