The Last Warning

The Last Warning

Directed by	Paul Leni
Produced by	Carl Laemmle
Screenplay by	Alfred A. Cohn J.G. Hawks Robert F. Hill Tom Reed
Based on	House of Fear (novel) by Wadsworth Camp and The Last Warning (play) by Thomas F. Fallon
Starring	Laura La Plante Montagu Love Margaret Livingston John Boles
Music by	Joseph Cherniavsky
Cinematography	Hal Mohr
Edited by	Robert Carlisle
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release dates	January 6, 1929 (1929-01-06) (U.S.)^[1]
Running time	89 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Last Warning is a 1929 American 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 death from blood poisoning in Los Angeles on September 2, 1929. It was adapted from the 1922 Broadway melodrama mystery The Last Warning written by Thomas F. Fallon based on the story The House of Fear by Wadsworth Camp, the father of the writer Madeleine L'Engle. The play ran for 238 performances from October 23, 1922, until May 1923 at the Klaw Theatre.

The Last Warning was re-made in 1939 by Joe May under the title The House of Fear.^[2]

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 remaining 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.

References

↑ "The Last Warning". Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved 2015-11-05.
↑ "The House of Fear (1939)". AllMovie. Retrieved 2014-06-27.

External links

The Last Warning at the Internet Movie Database
The Last Warning is available for free download at the Internet Archive
The Last Warning at AllMovie
The Last Warning review at the New York Times
Internet Broadway Database "The Last Warning"

Films directed by Paul Leni

Dr. Hart's Diary (1917) The Mystery of Bangalore (1918) The Conspiracy in Genoa (1921) Backstairs (1921) Waxworks (1924) The Cat and the Canary (1927) The Chinese Parrot (1927) The Man Who Laughs (1928) The Last Warning (1929)

Universal Monsters

Films

The Phantom of the Opera	The Phantom of the Opera (1925) Phantom of the Opera (1943)

Dracula	Dracula (English) (1931) Dracula (Spanish) (1931) Dracula's Daughter (1936) Son of Dracula (1943)

Frankenstein	Frankenstein (1931) Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Son of Frankenstein (1939) The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)

Edgar Allan Poe	Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) The Black Cat (1934) The Raven (1935) The Black Cat (1941)

The Mummy	The Mummy (1932) The Mummy's Hand (1940) The Mummy's Tomb (1942) The Mummy's Ghost (1944) The Mummy's Curse (1944) Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)

The Invisible Man	The Invisible Man (1933) The Invisible Man Returns (1940) The Invisible Woman (1940) Invisible Agent (1942) The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944) Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)

Werewolves	Werewolf of London (1935) The Wolf Man (1941) She-Wolf of London (1946)

Crossovers	Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) House of Frankenstein (1944) House of Dracula (1945) Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

Ape Woman	Captive Wild Woman (1943) Jungle Woman (1944) The Jungle Captive (1945)

Inner Sanctum Mysteries	Calling Dr. Death (1943) Weird Woman (1944) Dead Man's Eyes (1944) The Frozen Ghost (1945) Strange Confession (1945) Pillow of Death (1945)

Gill-man	Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) Revenge of the Creature (1955) The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)

Other films	The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) The Cat and the Canary (1927) The Man Who Laughs (1928) The Last Warning (1929) The Last Performance (1929) The Cat Creeps (1930) La Voluntad del muerto (1930) The Old Dark House (1932) The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935) The Invisible Ray (1936) Night Key (1937) The Phantom Creeps (1939) Tower of London (1939) Black Friday (1940) Man Made Monster (1941) Horror Island (1941) Night Monster (1942) The Mad Ghoul (1943) The Climax (1944) House of Horrors (1946) The Brute Man (1946) Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949) The Strange Door (1951) The Black Castle (1952) It Came from Outer Space (1953) Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953) Tarantula (1955) Cult of the Cobra (1955) This Island Earth (1955) The Mole People (1956) The Deadly Mantis (1957) The Monolith Monsters (1957) Monster on the Campus (1958) The Thing That Couldn't Die (1958) Curse of the Undead (1959) The Leech Woman (1960)

Remakes	Dracula (1979) The Mummy (1999) The Wolfman (2010) Dracula Untold (2014) The Mummy (2017)

Tributes

Boo! (1932)
Shock Theater (1957)
Tales of Frankenstein (1958)
The Munsters (1964-1966)
Mad Monster Party? (1967)
Mad Mad Mad Monsters (1972)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Monster Squad (1976-1977)
The Monster Squad (1987)
Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
Van Helsing (2004)
House of the Wolf Man (2009)
Monster High (2010)
Hotel Transylvania (2012)
Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)

Monsters

Franchises

John Willard's The Cat and the Canary (1922)

Films	The Cat and the Canary (1927) The Cat Creeps (1930) La Voluntad del muerto (1930 Spanish) The Cat and the Canary (1939) The Cat and the Canary (1961 Swedish) The Cat and the Canary (1979)

Related	The Last Warning The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case

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