The Last Warning
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| Directed by | Paul Leni |
| Produced by | Carl Laemmle |
| Written by | 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 by | Joseph Cherniavsky |
| Cinematography | Hal Mohr |
| Editing by | Robert Carlisle |
| Release date(s) |  January 6, 1929Universal Pictures |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
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.[1]
Synopsis
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
- The Last Warning at the Internet Movie Database
- The Last Warning review at the New York Times
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