The Last Warning
From The Grindhouse Cinema Database
The Last Warning (1928, USA) is a Silent-Horror-Mystery-Thriller film directed by Paul Leni.
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Main Details
- Released on December 18, 1928 (UK) | December 25, 1928 (USA)
- B&W
- Running time: 89 minutes
- Production and Distribution Co.: Universal Pictures
- Directed by Paul Leni
- Written by Alfred A. Cohn and Tom Reed (screenplay), from a story by Alfred A. Cohn, adapted by J.G. Hawks and Robert F. Hill from a play by Thomas F. Fallon from a novel by Wadsworth Camp.
- Starring: Laura La Plante, Montagu Love, Roy D'Arcy
Plot Summary
- A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the actors was murdered during a performance, by staging a production of the same play with the remaining members of the original cast.
Taglines
- Who killed John Woodford?
- Hall-Marked with the Master Touch of Sure Fire Audience and Box Office Appeal!
- The Picture of a Thousand Thrills. (Print Ad-Nashua Telegraph, ((Nashua, NH)) 6 February 1929)
- IT'S IN THE AIR! IT'S HERE! IT'S THERE! IT'S EVERYWHERE! S-H-I-V-E-R-Y MYSTERY! (Print Ad- Granby Leader-Mail, ((Granby PQ)) 5 July 1929)
- BEWARE! EXCITEMENT AWAITS YOU! EERIE MYSTERY THAT WILL SEND SHIVERS DOWN YOUR SPINE! DARING DRAMA THAT WILL CHILL YOU WITH ITS THRILLS AS IT WARMS YOU WITH ITS HEART-THROBS. SHIVERING SUSPENSE SHATTERED BY SUDDEN LAUGHS-ALL IN THE PICTURE OF A THOUSAND THRILLS-"THE LAST WARNING" (Print ad-North Platte Tribune, ((North Platte, Neb.)) 12 February 1929)
