Trent's Last Case (1952)
1h 30m
Running Time
September 22, 1952Release Date
Trent's Last Case (1952)
1h 30m
Running Time
September 22, 1952Release Date
Plot.
When a wealthy business man is found dead reporter Philip Trent is sent to investigate. Against the police conclusions, he suspects the assumed suicide is really a murder, and becomes highly interested in the young widow and the dead man's private secretary.
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Cast & Crew.
Michael Wilding
Philip Trent
Margaret Lockwood
Margaret Manderson
Orson Welles
Sigsbee Manderson
Miles Malleson
Burton Cupples
John McCallum
John Marlowe
Hugh McDermott
Calvin C. Bunner
Herbert Wilcox
Director
Jack McNaughton
Martin
Pamela Bower
Writer
E.C. Bentley
Writer
Sam Kydd
Inspector Murch
Anthony Collins
Composer
Kenneth Williams
Horace Evans
Mutz Greenbaum
Cinematographer
Geoffrey Bayldon
Reporter in Court
Bill Lewthwaite
Editor
Media.
Details.
Release DateSeptember 22, 1952
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 30m
Content RatingNR
Genres
Wiki.
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.