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Cape Fear (1962 film)

Cape Fear
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Cape Fear movie poster
Directed by J. Lee Thompson
Produced by Sy Bartlett
Screenplay by James R. Webb
Based on The Executioners
by John D. MacDonald
Starring Robert Mitchum
Gregory Peck
Martin Balsam
Polly Bergen
Lori Martin
Music by Bernard Herrmann
Cinematography Sam Leavitt
Edited by George Tomasini
Production
company
Melville Productions
Talbot Productions
Distributed by Universal International
Release date
  • April 12, 1962 (1962-04-12) (United States)
  • April 18, 1962 (1962-04-18) (New York City)
Running time
106 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Cape Fear is a 1962 American psychological thriller film starring Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck, Martin Balsam, and Polly Bergen. It was adapted by James R. Webb from the novel The Executioners by John D. MacDonald. It was directed by J. Lee Thompson, and released on April 12, 1962. The movie concerns an attorney whose family is stalked by a criminal he helped to send to jail.

Cape Fear was remade in 1991 by Martin Scorsese. Peck, Mitchum, and Balsam all appeared in the remake.

After spending eight years in prison for rape, Max Cady (Robert Mitchum) is released. He promptly tracks down Sam Bowden (Gregory Peck), a lawyer whom he holds personally responsible for his conviction because Sam interrupted his attack and testified against him. Cady begins to stalk and subtly threaten Bowden's family. He kills the Bowden family dog, though Sam cannot prove Cady did it. A friend of Bowden's, police chief Mark Dutton (Martin Balsam), attempts to intervene on Bowden's behalf, but he cannot prove Cady guilty of any crime.

Bowden hires private detective Charlie Sievers (Telly Savalas). Cady brutally attacks a promiscuous young woman named Diane Taylor (Barrie Chase) when she brings him home, but neither the private eye nor Bowden can persuade her to testify. Bowden hires three thugs to beat up Cady and persuade him to leave town, but the plan backfires when Cady gets the better of all three. Cady's lawyer vows to have Bowden disbarred.


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