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Director
  
Herbert Wilcox

Music director
  
Anthony Collins

Duration
  

Language
  
English

6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Mystery

Cinematography
  
Mutz Greenbaum

Country
  
United Kingdom

Trents Last Case (1952 film) movie poster

Release date
  
29 October 1952

Writer
  
Pamela Bower (screenplay), E.C. Bentley (novel)

Cast
  
Orson Welles
(Sigsbee Manderson),
Michael Wilding
(Philip Trent),
Margaret Lockwood
(Margaret Manderson),
John McCallum
(John Marlowe),
Miles Malleson
(Burton Cupples),
Hugh McDermott
(Calvin C. Bunner)

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Orson Welles and Margaret Lockwood appear in Trents Last Case and Trouble in the Glen

Tagline
  
A Woman's Kiss That Killed

Trent s last case 1952


Trent's Last Case (1952) is a British detective film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Michael Wilding, Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles and John McCallum. It was based on the 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.

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Plot

A major international financier is found dead at his Hampshire home. The Record newspaper assigns its leading investigative reporter, Phillip Trent, to the case. In spite of the police cordon, he manages to gain entry to the house by posing as a relative. While there he manages to pick up some of the background to the case from Inspector Murch, the Irish detective leading the investigation. Despite Murch's suggestion that the death is suicide, Trent quickly becomes convinced that it was in fact murder.

At the inquest, the coroner swiftly concludes that the deceased, Sigsbee Manderson, had killed himself. Trent, however, is given permission by his editor to continue to pursue the story. His attention is drawn to Manderson's widow, Margaret.

Cast

  • Michael Wilding - Phillip Trent
  • Margaret Lockwood - Margaret Manderson
  • Orson Welles - Sigsbee Manderson
  • John McCallum - John Marlowe
  • Miles Malleson - Burton Cupples
  • Hugh McDermott - Calvin C. Bunner
  • Jack McNaughton - Mr Martin, the butler
  • Sam Kydd - Inspector Murch
  • Henry Edwards - Coroner
  • Geoffrey Bayldon - Reporter in court
  • Robert Cawdron - PC
  • John Chandos - Tim O'Rielly
  • Ben Williams - Jimmy, the reporter
  • Kenneth Williams - Horace Evans, the junior gardener
  • Critical reception

    Leonard Maltin rated the film 2.5 out of 4 stars, and noted "superior cast in lukewarm tale of the investigation of businessman's death." while Jay Carr on the TCM website, wrote, "In Trent's Last Case, Welles shares the spotlight with his spectacular putty nose. It's a mighty ice-breaker of a nose, straight-edged as a steel blade, pulverizing all in its path, including whatever pretension to credibility this creaky British murder mystery might have retained."

    References

    Trent's Last Case (1952 film) Wikipedia
    Trents Last Case (1952 film) IMDb Trents Last Case (1952 film) themoviedb.org