Trent's Last Case (1929 film)

Trent's Last Case is a 1929 American Synchronized sound Pre-Code detective film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Raymond Griffith, Marceline Day, Raymond Hatton, and Donald Crisp.

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.

[1] The film is based on the 1913 novel Trent's Last Case by British writer E. C. Bentley.

A leading financier is found dead at his home, leading amateur detective Philip Trent to investigate the case.

[2] An incomplete print is held by the Library of Congress.