The movies in the 1960's was filled with some chilling stories but none was more colder than Cape Fear. It begins with Max Cady (Robert Mitchum in one of the greatest performances of his career).
He has arrived in a small town in Georgia because he is looking for one man: Sam Bowden (Gregory Peck)-the prosecutor who sent him to jail for assulting a woman.
He wants revenge because Cady felt he wasn't given a fair trial. Sure enough he sees Bowden. Not once. But many times. As a result, Bowden becomes scared.
He then calls the police and the inspector (Martin Balsam) brings in Cady (along with his lawyer played by Jack Kruchen) to question him and at one point he asks for a strip search as Cady goes down to his boxers and proves that he is clean and carrying nothing. But that is just the beginning as he tracks down Bowden's house and he stalks his wife Peggy (Polly Bergen)
and then chases their daughter Nancy (Lori Martin). When Sam hears this he realizes that this is for real. So he calls up a private investigator (Telly Salvalas) to help him but it leads to nothing as Cady's thugs beats him up. It leads to a showdown between Sam and Max in which they fight each other in the water (as Nancy and Peggy escape in the family's houseboat)
and in the end, Sam wins and instead of killing him, he makes a deal to Cady to have a normal life and go away. He agrees. The movie was directed by J. Lee Thompson-one year after directing Peck in The Guns Of Navarone and seven before The Chairman. As an interesting fact, Peck and Mitchum's film companies were in charge of the film. While it was remade in 1991 in which director Martin Scorsese used Peck, Mitchum, and Martin Balsam in small roles.
(a scene from the movie and its remake)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?vM7igDE9on-w
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