Last Embrace
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 the role similar to the biblical avenger Goel and kills the descendants of the Zwi Migdal, who enslaved her grandmother.
Plot
In a Mexican cantina across the border from El Paso, Texas, government agent Harry Hannan is romancing his wife, Dorothy, when he observes an informant he is supposed to meet in a few days. Realizing he is about to be attacked, he shoves his wife to the ground and starts shooting at the informant's companions who return fire and flee the restaurant. Dorothy is killed in the attack, and he suffers a nervous breakdown. Harry spends five months in a Connecticut sanitarium before being released.
More details
| author | David Shaber |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Texas |
| director | Jonathan Demme |
| editor | Barry Malkin |
| genre | mystery thriller |
| keywords | across the border american museum of natural history attack bell tower cave of the winds el paso government agent house kill macy\'s herald square morning natural history nervous breakdown new york city old man power plant princeton university robert moses niagara power plant shoot tour bus white slavery |
| musicBy | Miklós Rózsa |
| producer | Michael Taylor |
| publisher | United Artists |
| recordedAt | New Jersey Niagara Falls |
| theme | neo-noir psychological thriller |