Last Embrace
Director: Jonathan Demme
Genre: Spy, Thriller, Mystery, Psychological thriller, Suspense, Film adaptation, Crime Thriller, Drama
Year: 1979
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Janet Margolin, Roy Scheider, Sam Levene, David Margulies, Andrew Duncan, Jacqueline Brookes, Marcia Rodd, Christopher Walken, John Glover, Charles Napier, Mandy Patinkin
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.
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.
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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