Cape Fear (1962 film)

Cape Fear
Cape Fear
	Film poster
Directed by	J. Lee Thompson
Screenplay by	James R. Webb
Based on	The Executioners; 1957 novel; by John D. MacDonald
Produced by	Sy Bartlett
Starring	Gregory Peck; Robert Mitchum; Polly Bergen; Lori Martin; Martin Balsam; Jack Kruschen; Telly Savalas; Barrie Chase
Cinematography	Sam Leavitt
Edited by	George Tomasini
Music by	Bernard Herrmann
Production; companies	Melville Productions; Talbot Productions
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	June 15, 1962;
Running time	106 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1.8 million (US/Canada)

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. The picture was directed by J. Lee Thompson from storyboards devised by original director Alfred Hitchcock and released on April 12, 1962. The film concerns an attorney whose family is stalked by a vindictive psychopath he helped to send to jail. The supporting cast features Martin Balsam, Telly Savalas and Barrie Chase.

Cape Fear was remade in 1991 by Martin Scorsese. Peck, Mitchum, and Balsam all appeared as different characters in the remake.^[2]

^ "Big Rental Pictures of 1962". Variety. January 9, 1963. p. 13. Please note these are rentals and not gross figures
^ Kirsten Thompson, Cape Fear and Trembling: Familial Dread; In Literature and Film: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Film Adaptation, Edited by Robert Stam, Alessandra Raengo, Blackwell Publishing, 2005, ISBN 0631230556 (pp.126-147)