Editing Trent's Last Case (novel) (section)

===Film===
The novel was adapted into a [[Trent's Last Case (1920 film)|silent film]] directed by [[Richard Garrick]] in 1920.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b8e4849|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306203508/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b8e4849|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 March 2016|title=Trent's Last Case (1920) |work=BFI}}</ref> A [[Trent's Last Case (1929 film)|second adaptation]] (released in both a silent version and a sound version) was made by [[Howard Hawks]] in 1929.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b8e4e08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160617103215/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b8e4e08|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 June 2016|title=Trent's Last Case (1929) |work=BFI}}</ref>

A third [[Trent's Last Case (1952 film)|film adaptation]] was directed by [[Herbert Wilcox]] in 1952. It starred [[Michael Wilding (actor)|Michael Wilding]] as Trent, [[Orson Welles]] as Sigsbee Manderson, and [[Margaret Lockwood]] as Margaret Manderson.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b8e50c3|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160617120603/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b8e50c3|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 June 2016|title=Trent's Last Case (1952) |work=BFI}}</ref>

An excerpt of the book is recited in the film ''[[Places in the Heart]]'' (1984). The only part the audience hears is the opening line: "Chapter 1. Bad News. Between what matters and what seems to matter, how shall the world we know judge wisely?"