MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 805, 28 October 1929, Page 15

MAJESTIC

“THE LAST WARNING” Patrons at the Majestic Theatre this week are getting a complete assortment of thrills and exciting moments during the showing of “The Last Warning,” a mystery melodrama with dialogue and sound effects. It is another Paul Leni-Laura La Plante picture, and is a worthy successor to “The Cat and the Canary,” an earlier mystery offering from this star-director combination. Carl Laemmle, junr., supervised it. “The Last Warning” is a screen adaptation of the play of that name by Thomas F. Fallon, which was based on the Wadsworth Camp novel. As a talking picture it retains all the chill values of the play, with its eerie noises, screams, fright-fraught dialogue and general noise and excitement. It is one of Miss La Plante’s first talking pictures. She has a good screen voice and should be as popular in the new style of screen entertainment as she is in the silent drama. The cast includes Montagu Love, Roy D’Arcy, Margaret Livingstone, John Boles, Bert Roach, Burr Mclntosh and a score of other players well known to picture fans. All handle their parts well. A particularly happy selection of short talking and singing featurettes accompany this programme. They include a humorous sketch, “Doing His Duty,” by Ernie Lotinga, an entertaining novelty act, “The Loving Birds,” by the Arnott Brothers, and the latest edition of the Fox Movietone News.