The Last Performance
Cast & Crew
Paul Fejos
Conrad Veidt
Mary Philbin
Leslie Fenton
Fred Mackaye
Gustav Partos
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
In Budapest, Erik the Great, a magician, loves Julie his assistant, though he is more than 20 years her senior, and keeps Buffo, another assistant, under his hypnotic power. Mark Royce, a vagrant and starving youth caught stealing in Erik's apartment, is taken in at the suggestion of Julie, and he becomes Buffo's assistant. Mark and Julie fall in love. Later, in New York, while preparing a U.S. tour, Erik gives an eighteenth birthday party for Julie and plans to announce their engagement. Julie has concealed her love for Mark, and the wildly jealous Buffo shows Erik the two of them embracing in a garden. Erik then announces Julie's engagement to Mark. During the opening performance, in which Mark does a sword trick, Buffo is killed; Mark is charged with murder, but at the trial, because of his love for Julie, Erik confesses that he planned the crime, then draws a dagger and kills himself.
Director
Paul Fejos
Cast
Conrad Veidt
Mary Philbin
Leslie Fenton
Fred Mackaye
Gustav Partos
Eddie Boland
William H. Turner
Anders Randolf
Sam Degrasse
George Irving
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Bela Lugosi dubbed Conrad Veidt's voice for the Hungarian version.
Notes
The working title of this film was Erik the Great.
