| Last Embrace | |
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| Directed by | Jonathan Demme |
| Screenplay by | David Shaber |
| Based on | The 13th Man (novel) by Murray Teigh Bloom |
| Produced by | Michael Taylor Dan Wigutow |
| Starring | Roy Scheider Janet Margolin John Glover Sam Levene Charles Napier Christopher Walken |
| Cinematography | Tak Fujimoto |
| Edited by | Barry Malkin |
| Music by | Miklós Rózsa |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1,537,125[1] |
Last Embrace is a 1979 American neo-noir[2] thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme.[3] 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.
- ^ "Last Embrace". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
- ^ Silver, Alain; Ward, Elizabeth; eds. (1992). Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style (3rd ed.). Woodstock, New York: The Overlook Press. ISBN 0-87951-479-5
- ^ "Last Embrace". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved March 9, 2016.