Trents Last Case (1952 film)
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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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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)Similar movies 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
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Orson welles quotes othello in trent s last case
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
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
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