''Trent's Last Case'' is a 1929 American Synchronized

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detective film directed by

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and starring Raymond Griffith,

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, Raymond Hatton, and

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. It was released by

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. 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. The film is based on the 1913 novel '' Trent's Last Case'' by British writer E. C. Bentley. A previous version starring

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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 *

as Evelyn Manderson * Raymond Hatton as Joshua Cupples *

as Sigsbee Manderson *

Lawrence Gray Lawrence Gray (July 27, 1898 – February 2, 1970) was an American actor of the 1920s and 1930s. Early life and career Born on July 27, 1898, in San Francisco, Gray attended schools there and worked in Standard Oil Company's export depar ...

as Jack Marlowe * Nicholas Soussanin as Martin * Anita Garvin as Ottilie Dunois *

Edgar Kennedy Edgar Livingston Kennedy (April 26, 1890 – November 9, 1948) was an American comedic character actor who appeared in at least 500 films during the silent and sound eras. Professionally, he was known as "Slow Burn", owing to his ability to por ...

as Inspector Murch

Preservation status

According to Silent Era, a print exists. An incomplete print is held by the

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.''Catalog 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

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''Trent's Last Case'' at SilentEra
1929 films American detective films 1920s English-language films Films directed by Howard Hawks 1929 crime films American black-and-white films Fox Film films Films based on British novels Films based on mystery novels American remakes of British films Sound film remakes of silent films Transitional sound films American crime films Films based on works by Edmund Clerihew Bentley 1920s American films Part-talkie films English-language crime films Synchronized sound films {{1920s-crime-film-stub

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