Trent's Last Case
A reporter investigates a rich businessman's death. While police rule it suicide, Trent believes it's murder and grows intrigued by the widow and secretary.
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"It's good news for Welles completists that this, the better of the two films he made for Herbert Wilcox in 1952 (to help finance his on-off-on but finally magnificent film of 'Othello') is now available on DVD, though dismally free of extras. As a thriller it is a puzzle almost devoid of suspense, though there are some clever twists at the end. There are polished performances by Margaret Lockwood, John McCallum, Michael Wilding as the classy sleuth Trent, Miles Malleson in one of his best roles and Welles. Welles appears for no more than 20 minutes, in flashback, but, with his f..."
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In the film, Sigsbee Manderson (played by Orson Welles) mentions a performance of Shakespeare's "Othello" at the St. James Theatre in London in 1951, in which he disliked the leading actor's performance. This is an in-joke: Welles himself played Othello at the St. James in 1951, under his own direction. Peter Finch played Iago opposite him.
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A reporter investigates a rich businessman's death. While police rule it suicide, Trent believes it's murder and grows intrigued by the widow and secretary.