For the 50th anniversary of the thriller Cape Fear, Gary Susman (a colleague at Moviefone) wrote a great essay about how ROBERT MITCHUM's role as Max Cady ushered in the age of "modern movie villainy."
"... the movie's reputation grew over the years, mostly because Mitchum's
performance was so terrifying that it's impossible to dismiss as mere
exploitation fare. (By 1991, when Martin Scorsese remade it, Cape Fear was routinely referred to as a classic, a designation no one would have
imagined three decades earlier.)"
The original is now available on Blu-ray as well as DVD.
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