Last Embrace (1979)

Review: Last Embrace (1979)

Director: Jonathan Demme

Cast: Roy Scheider, Janet Margolin, John Glover, Sam Levene, Charles Napier,

Roy Scheider
Roy Scheider
Janet Margolin
Janet Margolin
John Glover
John Glover
Sam Levene
Sam Levene
Charles Napier
Charles Napier

Plot: Secret agent Harry Hannan 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 returns to work. But, once again, he begins to doubt his sanity when he receives a bizarre death threat written in Hebrew. Not knowing which of his colleagues wants to kill him, Hannan teams up with pretty young college student Ellie Fabian to attempt to unravel the mystery.

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Fall 2024 viewing round-up, part two

Fall 2024 viewing round-up, part two

A pair of Jonathan Demme features and several box sets are among my Fall movie watching, featuring various genre titles ranging from the Hollywood prestige of The Silence of the Lambs (1991) to the cheap regional horror of Doug Robertson’s […]

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