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| The lines are etched up on the exciting poster for J. Lee Thompson's Cape Fear |
QUICK REVIEW:
Cape Fear presents any stone-cut patriarch's worst nightmare: An outer threat that he can't protect his family against.
Gregory Peck (Roman Holiday (1953)) is the ultimate law-abiding gentleman family father, and Robert Mitchum (Out of the Past (1947)) is simply unpleasant as the man he has once put in jail. - Very unpleasant in fact.
Something about the family roles bothers me slightly, but Cape Fear is an otherwise great suspense movie; with inventive B/W photography by Sam Leavitt (Anatomy of a Murder (1959)), perfect use of shadows and yet another classic Bernard Herrman (Psycho (1960)) score. A menacing and very good thriller.
SPOILER In Mitchum's attack on Polly Bergen, who plays Peck's wife in the film, the eggs were not scripted, and Bergen's reaction to them is real. Mitchum also really slashed his hand open, and Bergen's back was also cut, and she had back injuries for days after the intense scene was shot.
Cape Fear is directed by J. Lee Thompson, one of Hollywood's hottest directors at the time, who had made the great The Guns of Navarone (1961) the year before.
Related review:
J. Lee Thompson: Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) or, The Final Ape!
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) or, The Ape Uprising
Watch the original trailer here
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