The Last Hour (play)

The Last Hour is a 1928 comedy thriller play by the British writer Charles Bennett.

At an inn on the coast of Devon, a secret agent battles a foreign prince trying to smuggle a stolen death ray out of the country.

It ran for 111 performances at the Comedy Theatre in London's West End between 20 December 1928 and 23 March 1929.

[1] The cast included Cyril Raymond, Lydia Sherwood, Edward O'Neill and Franklin Dyall.

In 1930 it was made into a British film The Last Hour directed by Walter Forde and starring Stewart Rome and Kathleen Vaughan.