''Trent's Last Case'' is a 1920 British
silent crime film
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ...
directed by
Richard Garrick
Richard Garrick (December 27, 1878 – August 21, 1962) was an Irish-born American actor and director.
Life and career
Garrick was born Richard Thomas O'Brien in the townland of Portlaw, County Waterford, Ireland. His father, James E. O'Brien ...
and starring
Gregory Scott
Gregory Scott was a British film actor of the silent era. He was born Gregory Scott Frances on 15 December 1879 in Sandy, Bedfordshire, England.
Selected filmography
* ''Enoch Arden'' (1914)
* '' The Harbour Lights'' (1914)
* ''In the Ranks'' ...
,
Pauline Peters and
Clive Brook
Clifford Hardman "Clive" Brook (1 June 1887 – 17 November 1974) was an English film actor.
After making his first screen appearance in 1920, Brook emerged as a leading British actor in the early 1920s. After moving to the United States ...
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/ref> It is an adaptation of the 1913 novel ''Trent's Last Case
''Trent's Last Case'' is a detective novel written by E. C. Bentley and first published in 1913. Its central character, the artist and amateur detective Philip Trent, reappeared subsequently in the novel ''Trent's Own Case'' (1936), and the sho ...
'' by E. C. Bentley
Edmund Clerihew Bentley (10 July 1875 – 30 March 1956), who generally published under the names E. C. Bentley or E. Clerihew Bentley, was a popular English novelist and humorist, and inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse ...
. Detective Philip Trent investigates the mysterious murder of the financier Sigsbee Manderson.
Cast
* Gregory Scott
Gregory Scott was a British film actor of the silent era. He was born Gregory Scott Frances on 15 December 1879 in Sandy, Bedfordshire, England.
Selected filmography
* ''Enoch Arden'' (1914)
* '' The Harbour Lights'' (1914)
* ''In the Ranks'' ...
– Philip Trent
* Pauline Peters – Mabel Manderson
* Clive Brook
Clifford Hardman "Clive" Brook (1 June 1887 – 17 November 1974) was an English film actor.
After making his first screen appearance in 1920, Brook emerged as a leading British actor in the early 1920s. After moving to the United States ...
– John Marlow
* George Foley
George James Foley (28 November 1872 – 27 October 1945) was an Australian politician from Western Australia. He was the member for the Western Australian seat of Electoral district of Mount Leonora, Mount Leonora from 1911 until 1920, initial ...
– Sigsbee Manderson
* Cameron Carr – Inspector Murch
* P. E. Hubbard – Nathaniel Cupples
* Richard Norton – Martin
References
External links
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1920 films
Films based on British novels
Films based on mystery novels
Films directed by Richard Garrick
1920 crime films
Films set in England
Broadwest films
British silent feature films
British black-and-white films
Films based on works by Edmund Clerihew Bentley
1920s English-language films
Silent mystery films
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