The Last Warning

Infobox Film
name = The Last Warning


caption =
amg_id = 1:98817
imdb_id = 0020080
director = Paul Leni
producer = Carl Laemmle
writer = Play Author: Thomas F. Fallon Story Author:
Wadsworth Camp Screenwriters:
Alfred A. Cohn J.G. Hawks Robert F. Hill Tom Reed
starring = Laura La Plante
Montagu Love
Margaret Livingston
John Boles
music = Joseph Cherniavsky
cinematography = Hal Mohr
editing = Robert Carlisle
released =
runtime =
country = USA
language = English
budget =
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followed_by =

"The Last Warning" (1929) is a mystery film directed by Paul Leni. It is a companion piece to Universal Pictures 1927 production of "The Cat and the Canary". This was the last film directed by Leni before his untimely death from blood poisoning in Los Angeles on 2 September 1929.

"The Last Warning" was re-made in 1939 by Joe May under the title "The House of Fear". [http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:126307 ]

ynopsis

Five years after a theater was closed following a murder of one of its actors during a performance, a producer decides to solve the mystery by again staging the play with the remainding cast. During the repeat performance another murder occurs. Eventually it is discovered that the murders were part a ploy devised by the stage manager to sabotage the production.

External links

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* [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=98817 "The Last Warning"] review at the "New York Times