Paul Leni's The Last Warning (1928) - one of the last silent films Universal produced - is something of a postmodern riff on the whole idea of German Expressionism, and it was his last film before he died of blood poisoning eight months later at the age of forty-four. Today Paul Leni is an unjustly neglected figure even among silent film aficonados and it seems urgent to exhume him as a master of the exuberant style of late silent film.