Event Details
Based on the 1957 novel The Executioners and produced by Gergory Peck’s Melville Productions, J. Lee Thompson’s Cape Fear broke new ground with audiences and pushed the limits of on-screen terror. Criminal attorney Sam Bowden (Gregory Peck) becomes the target of the unhinged Max Cady (Robert Mitchum), a recently released criminal who blames Bowden for his imprisonment. Bowden’s worst fears come true when Cady begins to harass and threaten Bowden’s wife and daughter, forcing him to take matters into his own hands in a pulse-pounding climax backed by a Bernard Herrmann score.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
1962 | 105 min. | USA | Black-and-White | English | Not Rated | 4K DCP
DIRECTED BY: J. Lee Thompson
WRITTEN BY: James R. Webb
WITH: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Lori Martin