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Last Embrace is a 1979 American neo-noir thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme. Very loosely based on the novel The 13th Man by Murray Teigh Bloom, it stars Roy Scheider and Janet Margolin, telling the story of a woman who takes a role similar to the biblical avenger Goel and kills the descendants of the Zwi Migdal, who enslaved her grandmother
May 4, 1979 · Last Embrace: Directed by Jonathan Demme. With Roy Scheider, Janet Margolin, John Glover, Sam Levene. Harry breaks down and loses his job after his wife is assassinated - could it be his turn next ?
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- Mystery, Romance, Thriller
- Jonathan Demme
- 1979-05-04
Secret agent Harry Hannan (Roy Scheider) suffers a mental breakdown when a botched mission in Mexico results in the death of his wife. He is sent to a mental asylum, after which he eventually ...
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- Jonathan Demme
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- Roy Scheider
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When his wife is killed in a restaurant shoot-out, intelligence man Harry Hannan (Roy Scheider) has a breakdown and finds that his department doesn't want him back. Someone's trying to kill him and it could be them, though a cryptic Jewish death-threat suggests there's something else going on.
Last Embrace is a 1979 American neo-noir thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme.
Sep 10, 2012 · A taut, complex conspiracy thriller, it sees Scheider - a former 'agent' for an assassination firm - threatened by mental breakdown (guilt over his wife's death), by his former employers who find...