Cape Fear

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.

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J. Lee Thompson directed Cape Fear in 1962. See J. Lee Thompson's full filmography, where to start with J. Lee Thompson, or where to go after you've seen everything by J. Lee Thompson.

Cape Fear was released in 1962 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 106 minutes.