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Trent's Last Case (1952)

Trent's Last Case poster
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

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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