Last Embrace
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| Directed by | Jonathan Demme |
| Produced by | Michael Taylor Dan Wigutow |
| Written by | Murray Teigh Bloom (novel) David Shaber (screenplay) |
| Starring | Roy Scheider Janet Margolin |
| Music by | Miklós Rózsa |
| Cinematography | Tak Fujimoto |
| Editing by | Barry Malkin |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
| Release date(s) | May 4, 1979 |
| Running time | 102 mins |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
Last Embrace is a 1979 thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme. Based on the novel The 13th Man by Murray Teigh Bloom, it stars Roy Scheider, Janet Margolin and Christopher Walken.
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[edit] Plot summary
Government agent Harry Hannan goes across the Texas border from El Paso to a town in Mexico to meet a contact in a cantina. But it's a set-up and his wife is murdered.
Harry ends up in a Connecticut sanitarium, where his sanity is in some doubt. He receives a mysterious anonymous letter written in Hebrew and signed: "Avenger of Blood."
Helped by a woman named Ellie Fabian who has a few secrets of her own, Harry ends up in a life-threatening climactic chase at Niagara Falls.
[edit] Cast
- Roy Scheider as Harry Hannan
- Janet Margolin as Ellie Fabian
- Christopher Walken as Eckart
- Sam Levene as Sam Urdeil
- John Glover as Richard Peabody
- Marcia Rodd as Adrian
- Charles Napier as Quittle
- David Margulies as Rabbi Drexel
[edit] Reaction
Vincent Canby in a May 4, 1979 New York Times review of Last Embrace wrote of Scheider: "No other leading actor can create so much tension out of such modest material."
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