![]() ![]() Even without knowing any background about the film, it’s obvious that its script, which fails to really tie together the two parts of the storyline and leaves some things a bit vague, needed some work, but the tale is still intriguing, the film quickly exerts a strong paranoid atmosphere and then never lets go, it’s very well shot throughout – director Jonathan Demme seeming to relish the chance to experiment more than normal – and it probably uses Roy Scheider better than any other films except for Jaws and All That Jazz. One of those films that never got a DVD release but has now had not just one but two differing Blu-ray releases both side of the pond, Last Embrace is a tense and atmospheric thriller which is undeniably something of a Hitchcock pastiche, and is full of references to the work of the Master Of Suspense, but works very well in its own right. Returning home, he finds that a student called Ellie Fabian has moved into his apartment, and also that he’s received a strange note, written in Aramaic, which seems to be some sort of death threat…. Several months later, he tries to go back to work but his employers don’t have an assignment for him and, after someone tries to push him in front of a moving train, he thinks that they may want to get rid of him. When he foolishly brings his wife Dorothy along to his latest job in El Paso, a shootout results in her death and Harry’s subsequent breakdown. Harry Hannan works for a shadowy organisation specialising in assassinations. REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic Starring: Janet Margolin, John Glover, Roy Scheider, Sam Levene Written by: David Shaber, Murray Teigh Bloom
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