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

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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