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Paul Leni’s
THE LAST WARNING, the final film from one of German cinema’s great filmmakers, is presented on Blu-ray from a 4K restoration on home video for the first time in the UK as a part of The Masters of Cinema Series from Eureka Video from February 15th 2021, and we’ve got three copies to give away!
Adapted from Thomas F. Fallon’s 1922 Broadway play of the same name, The Last Warning is based on the story The House of Fear by Wadsworth Camp and centres on an unsolved murder that occurs during a live Broadway performance. When the victim’s body goes missing, the death remains unsolved and the theatre is condemned. That is, until years later when a suspicious new “producer” arrives to restage the play with the original cast and crew.
Stuttgart-born auteur and film theoretician Paul Leni, whose illusionistic production designs and direction of
Waxworks (1924) helped define German Expressionist cinema, was 44 and approaching master status when he died of sepsis on 2 September 1929.
Stuttgart-born auteur and film theoretician Paul Leni, whose illusionistic production designs and direction of
Waxworks (1924) helped define German Expressionist cinema, was 44 and approaching master status when he died of sepsis on 2 September 1929. Following its limited Christmas Day 1928 release, Leni’s final film
The Last Warning, which was his fourth for Carl Laemmle’s Universal, had been released in January as both a silent and as a part-talkie, but it never won the critical acclaim of his seminal Hollywood horror classics
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