Last Embrace

Last Embrace is a 1979 thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme. Based on the novel The 13th Man by Murray Teigh Bloom, it stars Roy Scheider, Janet Margolin and Christopher Walken, telling the story of a woman who takes the role of the biblical avenger Goel Hadam, killing the descendants of the Lower East Side Zwi Migdal who enslaved her grandmother.

On his way back to New York City, Harry stumbles and nearly falls into the path of an express train. He goes to the makeup counter at Macys to retrieve his next assignment, but the assignment slip inside the lipstick case he is given is blank. He accosts his contact who assures him that the agency probably just does not have any work for him at the moment.When Harry returns to his apartment, he finds it is occupied by a doctoral student named Ellie Fabian. She explains that she had a perfectly legal sublet arranged while she is in the last semester of her studies at Princeton. Ellie claims that the housing office said the Hannans would be gone indefinitely. She gives Harry a note that was slipped under the door, but it contains only a few Hebrew characters that Harry cannot read. ........

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