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Box office. $1.8 million (US/Canada) [1] Cape Fear is a 1962 American noir psychological thriller film starring Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, and Polly Bergen. It was adapted by James R. Webb from the 1957 novel The Executioners by John D. MacDonald.
- $1.8 million (US/Canada)
- Sy Bartlett
Nov 15, 1991 · Cape Fear: Directed by Martin Scorsese. With Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis. A convicted rapist, released from prison after serving a fourteen-year sentence, stalks the family of the lawyer who originally defended him.
- (209K)
- Crime, Thriller
- Martin Scorsese
- 1991-11-15
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Cape Fear: Directed by J. Lee Thompson. With Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Lori Martin. A lawyer's family is stalked by a man he once helped put in jail.
- (31K)
- Drama, Thriller
- J. Lee Thompson
- 1962-06-15
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Actress: Cape Fear. Juliette Lewis has been recognized as one of Hollywood's most talented and versatile actors of her generation since she first stunned audiences and critics alike with her Oscar-nominated performance as "Danielle Bowden" in Cape Fear (1991).
- Actress, Director, Producer
- June 21, 1973
- 2 min
- Roger Cormier
- STEVEN SPIELBERG TRADED THE MOVIE TO MARTIN SCORSESE FOR THE RIGHTS TO SCHINDLER'S LIST. Martin Scorsese was apprehensive about making Schindler's List after the controversy surrounding his previous two films, Goodfellas and The Last Temptation of Christ.
- THE SCREENWRITER PASSED ON THE PROJECT, BUT SPIELBERG DIDN'T NOTICE. Spielberg had originally contacted screenwriter Wesley Strick (Arachnophobia) about adapting the original 1962 screenplay by James R. Webb, which was based on John D. MacDonald's 1958 novel The Executioners, but Strick wasn't interested.
- SCORSESE MADE THE SCREENWRITER TAKE OUT THE PARTS THAT WERE "TOO CLEVER." When Scorsese took over, he kept Strick, but made him take out all of the overly clever dialogue.
- IT COULD HAVE STARRED HARRISON FORD AND ROBERT DE NIRO. Scorsese asked De Niro to ask Harrison Ford to play Sam. Ford told De Niro he would only be interested in working on the film if he played Cady and De Niro played Sam.
Dec 26, 2023 · Remaking Cape Fear was no small feat, even for an acclaimed director like Scorsese, as it was a successful and critically acclaimed film when it debuted in 1962. Starring two of Hollywood's ...
Nov 12, 2021 · De Niro Unleashed: Looking Back on ‘Cape Fear’ 30 Years Later ... Like the malevolent preacher Mitchum played a few years earlier in Night of the Hunter, Cady’s creepiness is so overt—and ...
