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The Last Affair

1976 film by Henri Charr

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ22963191 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Last Affair is a 1976 American drama film directed by Henri Charbakshi and starring Ron Dean and Jack Wallace.

Cast

Debbie Dan as Mary

Ron Dean as David

Jack Wallace

Del Close

Betty Thomas

Production

The film was shot in Chicago during the winter of 1975. The film was originally meant to feature hardcore sex, although it was eventually edited in order to receive an R rating. The shooting of these scenes is chronicled in the 1976 documentary A Labor of Love.

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“The Last Affair” enters the record as 1976 film by Henri Charr. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Last, Affair and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1976, 1975—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1976. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Last, Affair and film.
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“The Last Affair” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Last, Affair and film provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22963191. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1976 and 1975.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Last Affair” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.