CAPE FEAR (1961) (1961)

J LEE THOMPSON

Thriller Classics 1960s Recommended Law/Legal/Solicitors/Trials Southern Gothic

Cast

GREGORY PECK ROBERT MITCHUM POLLY BERGEN TELLY SAVALAS BERNARD HERRMANN

Plot

Many people consider this to be superior to Scorsese's recent remake; Mitchum is superb as the sadist, newly released from jail and determined to exact a hideous revenge on the prosecutor (Peck) that sent him down. This aroused enormous controversy when first released in Britain in 1963.