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    Cape Fear (1962)

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    A grim thriller about Max Cady,Β an ex-convict who seeks revenge on Sam Bowden – the meek lawyer he believes responsible for his eight-year prison sentence.

    Robert Mitchum plays the cigar-chomping sadistic sex offenderΒ who threatens to rape the wife of upright Florida attorney Gregory Peck.

    The wife is played by Polly Bergen, who returned to the screen after an eight-year absence to play this role.

    Mitchum’s attentions soon move from poisoning the family dog to sexually assaulting Peck’s teenage daughter, Lori Martin.

    Finally, the desperate Peck uses Martin and Bergen as bait in a trap he sets for Mitchum in the steamy mangrove swamps of the Everglades.

    The performances are convincing. The film, based on a John D. MacDonald novel, is set in the bayous of the Deep South. Martin Balsam, Jack Kruschen, Lori Nelson, and Telly Savalas also star.

    Not sinceΒ Night Of The HunterΒ Β (1955)Β has Mitchum revelled in such rich villainy.Β Martin Scorsese directed a 1991 remakeΒ with Robert DeNiro, Jessica Lange and Nick Nolte.

    Sam Bowden
    Gregory Peck
    Max Cady
    Robert Mitchum
    Peggy Bowden
    Polly Bergen
    Nancy Bowden
    Lori Martin
    Mark Dutton
    Martin Balsam
    Dave Grafton
    Jack Kruschen
    Charles Sievers
    Telly Savalas
    Diane Taylor
    Barrie Chase
    Garner
    Paul Comi
    Marconi
    John McKee
    Deputy Kersek
    Page Slattery
    Officer Brown
    Ward Ramsey
    Judge
    Edward Platt
    Dr Pearsall
    Will Wright

    Director
    J. Lee Thompson

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