Deadly hug

Movie
German title	Deadly hug
Original title	Last Embrace
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1979
length	102 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Jonathan Demme
script	David Shaber
production	Michael Taylor, Dan Wigutow
music	Miklós Rózsa
camera	Tak Fujimoto
cut	Barry Malkin
occupation
Roy Scheider : Harry Hannan Janet Margolin : Ellie Fabian John Glover : Richard Peabody Sam Levene : Sam Urdell Charles Napier : Dave Quittle Christopher Walken : Eckart Jacqueline Brookes : Dr. Coopersmith David Margulies : Rabbi Josh Drexel Andrew Duncan : Bernie Meckler Marcia Rodd : Adrian Gary Goetzman : Tour Guide Lou Gilbert : Rabbi Jacobs Mandy Patinkin : First passenger Max Wright : Second passenger Sandy McLeod : Dorothy Hannan

Deadly Embrace (Original title: Last Embrace ) is an American thriller from 1979 . Directed by Jonathan Demme , the screenplay was written by David Shaber based on the novel The 13th Man by Murray Teigh Bloom .

action

Harry Hannan works as a secret agent. His wife is gunned down during an attack on him in Mexico . He himself spends some time in a Connecticut mental institution . After his release, someone tries to throw him in front of a train.

When Hannan returns to his New York apartment, it is already occupied by the student Ellie Fabian. Hannan falls in love with Fabian. You get on the trail of a conspiracy that wants to kill Jews . Hannan later discovers that Fabian also belongs to this conspiracy. Hannan finds a list with his name on it; the other people on the list have already been murdered.

Hannan is said to be murdered by Fabian at Niagara Falls . But she doesn't make it because she fell in love with him. After escaping, she falls into the abyss of the waterfalls.

Reviews

Vincent Canby wrote in the New York Times on May 4, 1979 that no other leading actor could get so much tension out of such "undemanding material". Canby also praised Janet Margolin and a few supporting actors who would be "some of the best" to be found in New York and Hollywood. Overall, the film seems “more conventional than necessary” and is less entertaining than its parts.

Cinema magazine wrote that the film was a "gripping thriller in the best Hitchcock tradition".

Film-Dienst wrote that the film was a “crime film whose theme, motifs, style and many quotes are based on Hitchcock thrillers”, “without reaching their density and tension arcs”. It offers "despite formal weaknesses still largely exciting entertainment".

The magazine TV Spielfilm 5/2008 wrote that the “paranoia thriller” was “peppered” with references to Alfred Hitchcock films ”and to the film Niagara .

background

The film was u. a. Filmed on the grounds of Princeton University and Niagara Falls . It grossed around $ 1.5 million in US cinemas .

The film was approved by the FSK in Germany from the age of 18, after a re-examination in 2015 it was reduced to the age rating of 12 years and over.

Web links

• Deadly embrace the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Deadly embrace at rotten tomatoes (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Certificate of Release for Deadly Hug . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2015 (PDF; re-examination, formerly FSK 18, test number: 60474aV).
2. ↑ Vincent Canby's film review, accessed February 25, 2008
3. ^ Cinema, accessed February 25, 2008
4. ↑ Deadly Embrace in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed February 25, 2008
5. ↑ TV Spielfilm 5/2008, page 118
6. ↑ Filming locations for Last Embrace, accessed February 25, 2008
7. ^ Last Embrace box office results, accessed February 25, 2008