Cape Fear

Cape Fear is a 1962 film about an attorney whose family is stalked by a criminal whom he helped to send to jail. It stars Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum as Max Cady, Polly Bergen, Lori Martin, Martin Balsam, Jack Kruschen, Telly Savalas, Paul Comi and Barrie Chase. 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. Cape Fear was remade in 1991. Pe... more

Cape Fear is a 1962 film about an attorney whose family is stalked by a criminal whom he helped to send to jail. It stars Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum as Max Cady, Polly Bergen, Lori Martin, Martin Balsam, Jack Kruschen, Telly Savalas, Paul Comi and Barrie Chase. 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. Cape Fear was remade in 1991. Peck, Mitchum and Balsam all appeared in the remake. After spending eight years in prison for assault, Max Cady (Robert Mitchum) is released. He promptly tracks down Sam Bowden (Gregory Peck), a North Carolina lawyer and a man he holds personally responsible for his conviction. Cady begins to stalk and subtly threaten Bowden's family. A friend of Bowden's, police chief Mark Dutton (Martin Balsam), attempts to intervene on his behalf, but he cannot prove Cady guilty of any actual new crime, even a minor one like vagrancy. Bowden hires Charlie... less