Cape Fear (1962)

Cast

Gregory Peck
as Sam Bowden
Robert Mitchum
as Max Cady
Telly Savalas
as Private Detective Charles Sievers
Martin Balsam
as Police Chief Mark Dutton

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Genres & Description

Drama Thriller

7.8 / 10

Small-town lawyer Sam Bowden's life becomes torturous when Max Cady re-enters his life. Cady went to jail for 8 years after Bowden testified that Cady attacked a young woman. Now that Cady has been released, he begins to terrorize Bowden and his family, particularly targeting Bowden's daughter, Nancy. Initially, Cady uses his newfound knowledge of the law (learned in prison) to annoy the Bowdens, then poisons the family dog... Who's next ?

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Jack Grattan

The party girl that Mitchum beats half to death is Barrie Chase, whose OTHER memorable role is as the bikini clad hottie dancing with Dick Shawn in IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD. - @Wednesday, March 2, 2016 6:16 AM

hutch thirteen

great pick but Lurie does not talk about the film. All time favorite. Do a double feature with NOFTH and you have Mitchum at his most terrifying. - @Sunday, March 29, 2015 8:12 PM

Jack Grattan

This blows Scorsese's overblown remake out of the water. I've KNOWN my share of mean Southern white trash, and Mitchum nails it perfectly AND believably. DeNiro goes SO over the top that he becomes a tattooed super villain. Scorsese FURTHER screws things up by making the victimized family unlikable and dysfunctional. The GOODNESS of Peck's family in the original brings Mitchum's insidious evil into stark relief. They were trying for some PSYCHO mojo here, as witnessed by the presence of actor Martin Balsam, composer Bernard Herrmann, and Hitchcock editor George Tomasini. One of the greats. - @Wednesday, January 21, 2015 4:44 PM

tio borracho

LOVE that sexy black & white! lacyunlimited d o t com/unlimited - @Friday, October 25, 2013 2:16 PM