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. BFI Database
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 Raymond Griffith as Philip Trent Marceline Day as Evelyn Manderson Raymond Hatton as Joshua Cupples Donald Crisp as Sigsbee Manderson Lawrence Gray as Jack Marlowe Nicholas Soussanin as Martin Anita Garvin as Ottilie Dunois Edgar Kennedy as Inspector Murch
Preservation status According to Silent Era, a print exists.SilentEra entry An incomplete print is held by the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:Trent's Last CaseCatalog 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
See also Trent's Last Case (1952) List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)
References
External links
Trent's Last Case at SilentEra