Last Embrace (1979)
Country: US
Technical: col 101m
Director: Jonathan Demme
Cast: Roy Scheider, Janet Margolin, Christopher Walken
Synopsis:
An Intelligence operative suffers a nervous breakdown when his wife is killed in crossfire and is convinced someone is trying to kill him. A demure young woman seems a shoulder to cry on, and she moves in and helps him as much as she can.
Review:
Following on from De Palma's example of turning Hitchcockian style into emotive adult thrillers for the permissive decade, Demme directs two of the 70s' grim survivors in an involved mystery culminating at the Niagara Falls, with lashings of Miklos Rozsa recalling the days of Spellbound. It tries hard, but does not quite get the tone right, especially when Miss Margolin dons a camiknicker and gets down and dirty in the bathroom. Benton evidently saw something and cast Scheider in the rather more successful Still of the Night two years later.
Country: US
Technical: col 101m
Director: Jonathan Demme
Cast: Roy Scheider, Janet Margolin, Christopher Walken
Synopsis:
An Intelligence operative suffers a nervous breakdown when his wife is killed in crossfire and is convinced someone is trying to kill him. A demure young woman seems a shoulder to cry on, and she moves in and helps him as much as she can.
Review:
Following on from De Palma's example of turning Hitchcockian style into emotive adult thrillers for the permissive decade, Demme directs two of the 70s' grim survivors in an involved mystery culminating at the Niagara Falls, with lashings of Miklos Rozsa recalling the days of Spellbound. It tries hard, but does not quite get the tone right, especially when Miss Margolin dons a camiknicker and gets down and dirty in the bathroom. Benton evidently saw something and cast Scheider in the rather more successful Still of the Night two years later.
Country: US
Technical: col 101m
Director: Jonathan Demme
Cast: Roy Scheider, Janet Margolin, Christopher Walken
Synopsis:
An Intelligence operative suffers a nervous breakdown when his wife is killed in crossfire and is convinced someone is trying to kill him. A demure young woman seems a shoulder to cry on, and she moves in and helps him as much as she can.
Review:
Following on from De Palma's example of turning Hitchcockian style into emotive adult thrillers for the permissive decade, Demme directs two of the 70s' grim survivors in an involved mystery culminating at the Niagara Falls, with lashings of Miklos Rozsa recalling the days of Spellbound. It tries hard, but does not quite get the tone right, especially when Miss Margolin dons a camiknicker and gets down and dirty in the bathroom. Benton evidently saw something and cast Scheider in the rather more successful Still of the Night two years later.