The Last Performance

The Last Performance (1929)

A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. She, on the other hand, is in love with the magician's young protege, who turns out to be a bum and a thief.

Date of release
1929-10-13
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (13)
Runtime
1h 0m
Genres
Drama, Horror, Romance
Director
Pál Fejős

Casting

Interesting facts

The Last Performance is a 1929 American sound part-talkie drama film directed by Paul Fejos and starring Conrad Veidt and Mary Philbin. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles. The soundtrack was recorded using the Western Electric sound-on-film system. The talking sequences were featured on the last reel.

Production

According to the Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World, filming began on July 30, 1928, withwroking titles that included The Play Goes On and The Last Call. The film made use of set from The Phantom of the Opera (1925). The film was made in both sound and silent versions. The original sound version had 272 feet more film than the silent one. The silent version is the only version known to have survived.

Both Veidt's and Philbin's contracts with Universal were cancelled before the film's release.

Michael R. Pitts described the style of the film as not being a horror film, but "a dark drama with genre overtones".

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