Cape Fear

1962

Action / Drama / Thriller

21
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 92% · 25 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 86% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.7/10 10 31698 31.7K

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Plot summary

Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.


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September 02, 2018 at 04:33 PM

Top cast

Gregory Peck as Sam Bowden
Robert Mitchum as Max Cady
Lori Martin as Nancy Bowden
Polly Bergen as Peggy Bowden
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by hitchcockthelegend 9 / 10

Max Cady isn't a man who makes idle threats.

Max Cady is fresh out of prison and down in Florida looking for someone in particular. That person is lawyer Sam Bowden, the man who Cady holds responsible for his years of incarceration. Once Bowden realises that Cady is out for revenge, and that his family are in serious danger, he turns to the police for help, but unable to get help from them, he goes outside of the law, and all parties are heading for the foreboding place known as Cape Fear.

Brilliant villainy, unnerving story and suspense pouring from every frame, Cape Fear is an abject lesson in how to produce a quality thriller that's borderline horror. Based on a novel called "The Executioners" written by John D. MacDonald, the piece is bolstered by some perfect casting decisions and by having a director able to pace with precision, thus it stands tall and proud as a highlight in a tough old genre. Robert Mitchum is Cady, a big hulking man with an immoral face, he terrifies purely by his undaunted objectives, with Mitchum clearly revelling in such a role. As Bowden we have Gregory Peck, playing it right as the uptight and stiff lawyer forced to find toughness from within. Backed up by excellent cameos from Martin Balsam, Telly Savalas and Polly Bergen, Cape Fear also features one of Bernard Herrmann's finest scores, a complete and utter nerve shredder with psychotic strings and brooding brass, it hangs in the ears long after the film has finished.

What lifts this above many of its thriller peers is that the dialogue is firmly accentuated by the character portrayals, watch as Cady calmly digresses about how he learnt the law in prison, or how he seeps with deviant sexual aggression when confronting the Bowden women, it's badness personified and literally a force of evil, so much so that the breaking of an egg is metaphorically a portent of pain unbound. Director J. Lee Thompson's career shows him to have been a steady if unspectacular director at times, but he directs this with no amount of zip and he deftly reins it in for a stifling last quarter at the Cape Fear bayou (his interview on the disc releases is full of love and insights). Along with his cinematographer, Sam Leavitt, Thompson expertly uses shadow and light to consistently keep the feeling of dread looming as much of a hostile presence as Bobby Mitchum is throughout the play.

By the time the finale reveals the denouement, it's hoped that you are as living on your nerves as this particular viewer always is when viewing this clinically sharp piece of thriller cinema. 9/10

Reviewed by ccthemovieman-1 8 / 10

Stick With This One: The Original

Boy, this shows that you can still make a scary movie without a lot of blood, profanity and whatever. Hollywood didn't learn that, however, featuring all of it less than a decade after this was made. The Martin Scorcese re-make of this movie is exactly what I'm talking about.

This original Cape Fear was legitimately scary, thanks to the performance of Robert Mitchum, who doesn't need to resort to the f-word to be a tough, sick and really an evil character as he stalks Gregory Peck and his wife (Polly Bergen) and daughter (Lori Martin).

Bergan and Martin are two women I don't see too much in films which is too bad. They did a lot more TV work than movies. Another thing you don't see much anymore - a nice, sympathetic policeman - was also portrayed in here nicely by Martin Balsam.

The ending has some holes in it, to be sure, but overall it offers a good 106- minute suspense story.

Reviewed by Lejink 9 / 10

Big bad Bob

For me, one of the best thrillers you could ever hope to see, Robert Mitchum somehow manages to top the sheer malevolence of his characterisation of the deranged preacher in the classic "Night Of The Hunter" with his portrayal of the vengeful Max Cady out to terrorise the family of the man whose testimony put him in jail, Gregory Peck's straight - arrow attorney at law, Sam Bowden.

The difference between the preacher and Cady and what takes Cady's evil to a different level again, is his obvious intent to corrupt Bowden's young daughter as he sees her for the first time painting her parents' boat. Before that it's difficult to tell just what shape his revenge will take but once the idea fixes in his mind, impossible as it might seem in a Hollywood feature from 1961, he clearly intends to carry out his plan, although he's not above attacking Peck's wife as a diversionary tactic.

Almost as much a study in how a good man can be brought almost to murder as in the psychopathic behaviour of a bad man, the story moves inexorably towards its nerve-shredding climax in the dark waters of the canal to where Peck unwisely lures Mitchum. We see Peck's Bowden gradually slip down almost to Cady's sub-human level, compromising in the process his years of legal training never mind his common decency as a happily married family man. In one of the great closing shots in cinematic history (in my opinion), he stops just short of this as he reclaims his humanity although just how he and his clearly traumatised family come back from this I personally couldn't imagine.

Everywhere you look there are fine performances, from Polly Bergen who tries to be her husband's moral compass but who likewise goes all points west the closer Cady gets to her daughter, young Lori Martin is excellent as the terrorised daughter in question, while there are solid characterisations in support by a folically-gifted Telly Savalas as the Bowdens' appointed private detective and Martin Balsam as the supportive police chief with a special nod to the little known Barrie Chase, the bar-room floozy Cady casually picks up and uses / abuses almost as practice for what's to come. Peck as you'd expect is excellent but it's undoubtedly Mitchum's film. Bulked up and brutish, sodden and unkempt, with no qualms about beating up and presumably raping women as well as casually breaking the neck of the policeman sent to play family bodyguard, it's all in the nuance and intent as up until the climax you barely see him lift a finger against anyone. I defy your skin not to crawl as he smears the terrified Bergen's breasts with raw eggs on the houseboat.

Credit director J Lee Thomson for a masterfully helmed thriller , one so good that Hitchcock himself could hardly beat it, the action and tension all the better for being filmed in "Psycho-esque" black and white and accompanied by another terrific Bernard Hermann soundtrack.

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