Cape Fear

1962

WOW! Robert Mitchum's Max Cady is the most terrifying villain I have ever seen! I don't know that any other movie has kept me so taut with dread. All the shots of hands. Mitchum's animal physicality, that is noted but not overdone. His bare chest. That third act! The muddy river water that makes the most civilized of men look like Colonel Kurtz.

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