Trent's Last Case (1952)

Directed by

Herbert Wilcox

Genre

horror film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 11 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.

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How it feels

A detective investigates a businessman's strange death. The case involves a widow and a complex web of motives.

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What happens

Trent's Last Case is a 1952 British detective film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Michael Wilding, Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles and John McCallum. It was produced by Wilcox as part of a distribution agreement with Republic Pictures. It was based on the 1913 novel Trent's Last Case by E. C. Bentley, and had been filmed previously in the UK with Clive Brook in 1920, and in a 1929 US version. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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