

Cape Fear
Now he had only one weapon left—murder!
Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $35M
- Box office
- $103M
- Language
- English
- small town
- psychopath
- poison
- ex-detainee
- boat
- film noir
- lawyer
- psychological thriller
- killing a dog
- listening to the radio
- aggressive
- intense
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPGMiamy and Fort Lauderdale Premiere12 Apr 1962
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1510 Jan 1963
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM20 Jul 1962
CanadaCA
- TheatricalPG20 May 1962
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical169 Nov 1962
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical21 Sept 1962
BelizeBZ
- Theatrical20 Sept 1962
BotswanaBW
- Theatrical10 Jan 1963
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical1521 Feb 1963
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-165 Dec 1969
FranceFR
- TheatricalU31 Oct 1962
- TheatricalURe-release21 Oct 2015
GermanyDE
- Theatrical16West Germany Premiere17 Aug 1962
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Cape Fear was released on 12 April 1962.
Audience reviews
2- J9/10
John Chard
9/21/2019
Max Cady isn't a man who makes idle threats. Max Cady is fresh out of prison and down in Florida looking for someone in particular. That person is lawyer Sam Bowden, the man who Cady holds responsible for his years of incarceration. Once Bowden realises that Cady is out for revenge, and that his family are in serious danger, he turns to the police for help, but unable to get help from them, he goes outside of the …
- F7/10
Filipe Manuel Neto
6/22/2022
**A good thriller with a lot of suspense and tension, which deserved to be reviewed and re-fished for new audiences.** There are films that are unfairly forgotten after the release of their respective contemporary remakes, and I have no doubt that this one can be included in that list. It was a film produced and starred by Gregory Peck, one of the movie stars of the 60s, and it has a great cast and a good script, …
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