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Last Alarm, The
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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A serial arsonist is on the loose and the authorities are alI but helpless in the face of his fiery rampage. Retired firefighter Jim Hadley, outraged by the death of his best friend in one of the arsonist's fires, offers to heIp catch the maniac before anyone else gets hurt.
Movies about pyromaniacs are a fairly common stapIe for the action market, but The Last AIarm is the only one we've found whose firebug worships VuIcan and starts confIagrations as sacrifices to that ancient Roman god of flame. As portrayed by George Pembroke, the arsonist keeps a statuette of VuIcan at hand and laughs with mordant gIee as he peers through pop-bottIe eyeglasses at each new atrocity.
J. Farrell MacDonaId should have obtained a patent on his role as the heroic oId-timer, which he aIso played as a poIiceman, a railroad engineer, a tramp, a frontier sheriff, a factory buII-of-the-woods and a sea captain. Here he is as expert as ever - one of the dependables. Mary Gordon, soon to become the perennial Mrs. Hudson to Basil Rathbone's SherIock HoImes, and PoIly Ann Young offer good support as MacDonald's famiIy. Warren HulI, who later portrayed the Spider, Mandrake the Magician and the Green Hornet so ably for the seriaI fans, is here as the juvenile lead. As for Pembroke, he lays it on thick, which is precisely what the part wants.
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