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Trent's Last Case
Trent's Last Case
Directed by	Howard Hawks
Written by	W. Scott Darling ; Malcolm Stuart Boylan ; Beulah Marie Dix
Based on	Trent's Last Case by E. C. Bentley
Produced by	William Fox ; Bertram Millhauser
Starring	Raymond Griffith; Marceline Day; Raymond Hatton; Donald Crisp
Cinematography	Harold Rosson
Production; company	Fox Film Corporation
Distributed by	Fox Film Corporation
Release date	March 31, 1929;
Running time	66 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Sound (Part-Talkie); English Intertitles

Trent's Last Case is a 1929 American sound part-talkie 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. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. The soundtrack was recorded using the Movietone sound-on-film system.^[1]

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.

According to Silent Era, a print exists.^[2] An incomplete print is held by the Library of Congress.^[3]^[4]

^ BFI Database
^ SilentEra entry
^ The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:Trent's Last Case
^ 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