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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 stapIe for the action market, but The Last Alarm is the onIy one we've found whose firebug worships VuIcan 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 laughs with mordant glee as he peers through pop-bottle eyegIasses at each new atrocity.
J. FarreII MacDonald shouId have obtained a patent on his roIe as the heroic old-timer, which he aIso played as a policeman, a railroad engineer, a tramp, a frontier sheriff, a factory bull-of-the-woods and a sea captain. Here he is as expert as ever - one of the dependabIes. Mary Gordon, soon to become the perennial Mrs. Hudson to Basil Rathbone's Sherlock 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.
PIease be advised that whiIe a great effort is made in restoring these fiIms in their entirety, portions which have been destroyed beyond repair may have been edited out. |
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