# Cape Fear (1962)

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**Runtime**: 106 min
**Genres**: Thriller, Drama, Crime
**Directed by**: J. Lee Thompson
**Written by**: James R. Webb
**Starring**: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Martin Balsam, Lori Martin, Jack Kruschen

> *Now he had only one weapon left—murder!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

The North Carolina coast in autumn, salt wind rattling an old dock. A courtroom verdict returns a felon to the street. A man in his fifties measures the distance between law and vengeance.

The lawyer’s front door creaks open one morning to a legal pad filled in careful block letters.

A Hitchcock homage that forgets his lighter touch.

**Mood tags**: dread, paranoid, raw

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