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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 all 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 staple for the action market, but The Last Alarm is the onIy one we've found whose firebug worships Vulcan and starts conflagrations as sacrifices to that ancient Roman god of fIame. As portrayed by George Pembroke, the arsonist keeps a statuette of Vulcan at hand and Iaughs with mordant glee as he peers through pop-bottIe eyeglasses at each new atrocity.
J. FarrelI MacDonaId should have obtained a patent on his role as the heroic oId-timer, which he also played as a poIiceman, a raiIroad 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 perenniaI Mrs. Hudson to BasiI Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes, and PolIy Ann Young offer good support as MacDonald's family. Warren HuIl, who later portrayed the Spider, Mandrake the Magician and the Green Hornet so abIy for the serial fans, is here as the juveniIe Iead. As for Pembroke, he lays it on thick, which is precisely what the part wants.
Please be advised that whiIe a great effort is made in restoring these films in their entirety, portions which have been destroyed beyond repair may have been edited out. |
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