Cape Fear

15 November 1991128 min,

There is nothing in the dark that isn't there in the light. Except fear.

Plot:

Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey, bibliophile Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.

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Cast & Crew

Sound

Skip Lievsay

Supervising Sound Editor

Art

Henry Bumstead

Production Design

Production

Steven Spielberg

Executive Producer

Kathleen Kennedy

Executive Producer

Frank Marshall

Executive Producer

Directing

Joseph P. Reidy

First Assistant Director

Editing

Camera

Freddie Francis

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Rita Ryack

Costume Design

Fun Facts of Movie

  • The thick accent Robert De Niro used to play Max Cady reportedly gave Martin Scorsese the creeps. As a joke, De Niro would call Scorsese’s house, leaving voicemails as Cady.
  • The scene in the high school auditorium was completely ad-libbed by Robert De Niro and Juliette Lewis, and done on the first take.
  • Robert De Niro paid a dentist $5,000 to make his teeth look suitably bad for the role of Max Cady. After filming, he paid $20,000 to have them fixed.
  • Robert De Niro did a lot of working out several months before the movie and during the shoot to make him the muscular Max Cady, reportedly taking his body fat down to only three percent.
  • Juliette Lewis developed a crush on Robert De Niro during the scene in the drama class.
  • Gregory Peck, who starred in Cape Fear (1962), appears as Cady’s lawyer. Robert Mitchum played Max Cady in the 1962 version, and appears as Lieutenant Elgart. Martin Balsam played Mark Dutton in the 1962 version, and the judge in this version.
  • Robert De Niro researched sexual predator crimes for the part, and suggested the scene where his character bites the victim. Robert De Niro was tattooed with vegetable dyes, which faded after a few months.
  • Steven Spielberg was originally set to direct. He later recommended Martin Scorsese for the job and personally called Scorsese, letting him know that this was a commercial film that had potential to be a hit, which would exercise more power for Scorsese to make his films.
Source: IMDb
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