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The Last Alarm (1940)
Clean
January 27, 2007 12:50 PM PST
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J. Farrell MacDonald as Captain Jim Hadley and Warren Hull as Frank Rogers


When Jim Hadley retires from the Fire department, he hardly knows what to do with himself, he's 65 you see, and the fire department kicked him off because of his age. But when an arsonist lets loose on the city, Jim is at first reluctant to going back into firefighting, but caves in when his best friend on the force dies. The race is on to find the arsonist before it hits too close to home! This actually was a LOT of fun. Aside from the stock footage of fires which was great (a lot of it I've actually seen before), I truly LOVED the arsonist played by George Penbrooke, He brought a great sinister quality mixed in with some ridiculousness for good measure. His intensity could easily be matched with someone like Willem Defoe. I always looked forward to seeing him on the screen again. Didn't really like the ridiculous ending. Why was he remaining in the house?