Re-posted by N.S.
"Last Embrace: A Symphony" (Miklos Rozsa, video)
Last Embrace was a black-and-white thriller, made on a shoestring, directed by Jonathan Demme, and starring Roy Scheider and Janet Margolin. Typically, I couldn't say anything about a thriller's story, without giving it away, but Last Embrace is a most unusual thriller.
The stars were both Jews playing Jews, which was very rare, and had a historical connection that made them practically cousins. She's a Ph.D. student in anthropology, and he's a fed who is coming off a nervous breakdown, who is convinced that people are trying to murder him...and he's right! To borrow from Forrest, "And that's all I've got to say about that."
As for the music, it is not prime Rozsa--he was an old man by then, and sometimes echoes his younger self--but it still beats the heck out of most of the competition.
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I didn't look this up,but from all the clues,I'd say it's from around 1982.
Very good clip of music. Now I'll do a search. I've actually never heard of it before.
1979 was the year. Fairly close.
--GRA
Where did you get the idea that actor Roy Scheider was Jewish? ("The stars [Scheider and Janet Margolin] were both Jews playing Jews, which was very rare, and had a historical connection that made them practically cousins.") Wikipedia says that "Scheider's mother was of Irish descent with an Irish Catholic background. His father was a Protestant German American." IMDB says the same.
Saw this long ago. The scene depicted in the poster was really spectacular and it was pretty disappointing that there was nothing like it at the climax of the movie, which I barely recall. And it wasn't in black and white!
-RM
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