Gregory Peck,
Robert Mitchum,
Polly Bergen,
Lori Martin,
Martin Balsam
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After an eight-year prison term for rape and assault, Max Cady (Robert Mitchum) is set free. Immediately making a beeline to Sam Bowden (Gregory Peck), the former prosecutor responsible for Cady's con... read more
Directed by: J. Lee Thompson
Release Date: April 18, 1962
Keywords:
gregory peck,
robert mitchum,
max cady,
cape fear,
Gregory Peck ,
Robert Mitchum ,
Cape Fear ,
Max Cady
DVD Release Date: September 18, 2001
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May 4, 2011Cape Fear is a classic noir that really achieves its intentions. J. Lee Thompson is a director I'm ashamed to say I'm still fairly unfamiliar with although the few films of his I have seen I have loved. It is obvious here that he has mastered the art of light and shadow, the film... read more
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November 23, 2010This is a great thriller, it's exciting and suspenseful, and has a couple of great actors. I highly recommend it.
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November 23, 2010A pulse racing epic battle between a criminal and the man who wronged him, Cape Fear is both psychologically frightening and maddening to the senses. Made in the 60's, there is no comparison to the black and white night, so forbidding and frightful that color would ruin a perfect... read more
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August 2, 2009Robert Mitchum is an intriguing villain in CAPE FEAR, the original (and better) story of Max Cady, an ex-con in search of revenge on the lawyer who got him in prison, and his family.
As Cady, Mitchum is cunning, smart, mysterious and strangely alluring. He carefully creates a... read more -
April 27, 2009A lawyer finds his family terrorized by a brutal woman hating sociopath who blames him for sending him to jail for 8 years. Gregory Peck was the perfect casting choice as the morally upstanding husband and father who finds he must question his principles when the law fails to pro... read more
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February 27, 2009Excellent thriller that delivers a screen baddie that is one of the greats. It's a chilling movie.
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April 30, 2008Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum are face to face, pound to pound in this thrilling and terrifying noir with a great score by Bernard Herrmann
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January 6, 2008A creepy film about a released criminal who stalks the lawyer who had him put away. Robert Mitchum is chilling as the scary yet somehow charming Cady, and Gregory Peck plays the lawyer. The scenes where Cady is stalking the lawyer's wife and daughter is particularly unsettling. B... read more
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July 1, 2007Certainly wasn't expecting this to that great, seeing as Cape Fear (The remake) is one of my favourite films, but I really enjoyed it.
It was inevitable to compare the two and I still prefer the newer version, but was very impressed by Robert Mitcham in this, not quite so im... read more
Critic Reviews
April 18, 2008
Michael W. Phillips, Jr., Goatdog's Movies
January 23, 2007
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Unpleasant but suspenseful film noir. Full Review
June 24, 2006
Bob Bloom, Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
A tense thriller that holds your attention to the very end. The film is aided by one of Bernard Hermann's better scores.
March 19, 2003
Brian Mckay, eFilmCritic.com
Tedious remake of a "thriller" that wasn't that thrilling to begin with
February 7, 2003
Nell Minow, Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Keep-you-up-all-night terrifying!
July 25, 2002
Alex Sandell, Juicy Cerebellum
The remake with De Niro had the most to fear from this superior little thriller!
July 25, 2002
Chuck Rudolph, Matinee Magazine
A classic revenge thriller.
September 26, 2001
James Kendrick, Q Network Film Desk
works best as a twisted nail-biter, punctuated brilliantly with an apocalyptic score by Bernard Herrmann
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