Cape Fear

“Now he had only one weapon left—murder!”

Max Cady (Robert Mitchum) walks out of prison after eight years and starts turning up wherever Sam Bowden (Gregory Peck) goes. Cady stays a careful step inside the law, so the lawyer who testified against him has no legal way to make him stop. J. Lee Thompson keeps that gap in view, between what the law covers and what a family in Cape Fear actually has to fear.