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DVD : Cape FearIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Lori Martin, Martin Balsam directed by: J. Lee Thompson  List Price: $14.98 Amazon.com's Price: $10.49 You Save: $4.49 (30%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: Universal EAN: 9780783235042 Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0783235046 Label: Universal Studios Manufacturer: Universal Studios Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Universal Studios Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 18, 2001 Running Time: 105 minutes Studio: Universal Studios Theatrical Release Date: 1962 Sales Rank: 9757 MPN: MCAD20634D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: A southern lawyer sets a trap on a houseboat for a twisted ex-convict terrorizing his family. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 09/02/2003 Starring: Gregory Peck John Mckee Run time: 105 minutes Rating: Nr Director: J. Lee Thompson Amazon.com essential video: Superior to Martin Scorsese's punishing 1991 remake, this 1962 thriller directed by J. Lee Thompson (The Guns of Navarone) stars Robert Mitchum as a creepy ex-con angry at the attorney (Gregory Peck) whom he believes is responsible for his incarceration. After Mitchum makes clear his plans to harm Peck's family, a fascinating game of crisscrossing ethics and morality takes place. Where the more recent version seemed trapped in its explicitness, Thompson's film accomplishes a lot with a more economical and telling use of violence. The result is a richer character study with some Hitchcockian overtones regarding the nature of guilt. --Tom Keogh Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A TRULY TERRIFYING MOVIEI saw this movie on TV as a child and was truly terrified by Robert Mitchum. He is an actor who was able to scare me without buckets of blood, profanity and other tactics that todays actors use. The most frightening scene, I thought, was the scene when Mitchum drowns the deputy, Kersek, in the river. The music was a factor in the chilling scene as well. As a kid, I thought this was terrifying and still do. In the 1991 remake, Kersek is strangled with a piano ... Read More Rating: - Keeps you on the edge of your seat...This movie scared me to death the first time I saw it. I could hardly keep my eyes on the screen at the end! Robert Mitchum gave me chills throughout! I never looked at him the same way in anything else. It sounds rediculous with all of todays new ways to make things scary that this should effect me so much but it really does. It's a classic and it's great! It's one of those thrillers you can watch again and again and even on your 10th time you're on the edge of your seat! Rating:  - "You have to know him to feel the threat..."J. Lee Thompson's 1962 version of Cape Fear may not be a masterpiece, but in everyway it's a superior thriller to Martin Scorsese's horribly misjudged remake. More surprisingly, it's also much nastier even with the heavier censorship of the day - Robert Mitchum's treatment of Polly Bergen in the last reel is startlingly violent and disturbing even now and its still shocking to see an early 60s film that revolves around sex crimes. There's no doubt exactly what's on Mitchum's mind, whether he's eyeing ... Read More Rating: - Fear Indeed. . . This is the original 1962 "Cape Fear", superbly directed by J. Lee Thompson and produced by Gregory Peck - not to be confused with the mess of a remake attempted in the early 1990s by Martin Scorsese. The film is based on a story called "The Executioners" by John D. MacDonald (the "Travis McGee" series) and is rooted in the film noir tradition of the 1940s and 1950s. It was shot in black and white, which enhanced its noirish atmosphere of foreboding. "Cape Fear" is the story of a public ... Read More Rating: - Good triumphs over evilCape Fear is a gripping thriller that builds to a terrifying climax. The feeling of palpable fear is introduced from the outset and builds to a gripping ending. A man and his family live in fear of a loser bent on revenge. It seems nothing will stop this personification of evil. He is cold and calculating and determined. There seems to be no way out of tragedy at every turn. Innocence is like blood in the water. There is little hope until the end when the stalker slips up and allows his prey to ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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