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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
In short: This is the way older black and white films should look - and sound - on our home video systems. Absolutely beautiful transfer to Blu-ray!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Max Cady is fresh out of prison and down in Florida looking for someone in particular. That person is lawyer Sam Bowden, the man who Cady holds responsible for his years of incarceration. Once Bowden realises that Cady is out for revenge, and that his family are in serious danger, he turns to the police for help, but unable to get help from them, he goes outside of the law, and all parties are heading for the foreboding place known as Cape Fear.
Brilliant villainy, unnerving story and suspense pouring from every frame, Cape Fear is an abject lesson in how to produce a quality thriller. Based on a novel called The Executioners written by John D. MacDonald, the piece is bolstered by some perfect casting decisions and by having a director able to pace with precision, it stands tall and proud as a highlight in a tough old genre. Robert Mitchum is Cady, a big hulking man with an immoral face, he terrifies purely by his undaunted objectives, with Mitchum clearly revelling in such a role. As Bowden we have Gregory Peck, playing it right as the uptight and stiff lawyer forced to find toughness from within. Backed up by excellent cameos from Martin Balsam, Telly Savalas and Polly Bergen, Cape Fear also features one of Bernard Herrmann's finest scores, a complete and utter nerve shredder that hangs in the ears long after the film has finished.
What lifts it above many of its peers is that its dialogue is firmly accentuated by the character portrayals, watch as Cady calmly digresses about how he learnt the law in prison, or how he seeps with deviant sexual aggression when confronting the Bowden women, it's unnerving and literally a force of evil. Director J. Lee Thompson was a steady if unspectacular worker, but he directs this with no amount of zip and then he perfectly reins it in for a stifling last quarter at the Cape Fear bayou, by then I hope you are as living on your nerves as I invariably always am! 9/10
Brilliant villainy, unnerving story and suspense pouring from every frame, Cape Fear is an abject lesson in how to produce a quality thriller. Based on a novel called The Executioners written by John D. MacDonald, the piece is bolstered by some perfect casting decisions and by having a director able to pace with precision, it stands tall and proud as a highlight in a tough old genre. Robert Mitchum is Cady, a big hulking man with an immoral face, he terrifies purely by his undaunted objectives, with Mitchum clearly revelling in such a role. As Bowden we have Gregory Peck, playing it right as the uptight and stiff lawyer forced to find toughness from within. Backed up by excellent cameos from Martin Balsam, Telly Savalas and Polly Bergen, Cape Fear also features one of Bernard Herrmann's finest scores, a complete and utter nerve shredder that hangs in the ears long after the film has finished.
What lifts it above many of its peers is that its dialogue is firmly accentuated by the character portrayals, watch as Cady calmly digresses about how he learnt the law in prison, or how he seeps with deviant sexual aggression when confronting the Bowden women, it's unnerving and literally a force of evil. Director J. Lee Thompson was a steady if unspectacular worker, but he directs this with no amount of zip and then he perfectly reins it in for a stifling last quarter at the Cape Fear bayou, by then I hope you are as living on your nerves as I invariably always am! 9/10
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
All I can say is, "Wow!" I have never seen the original Cape Fear look and sound this good!! The 1080p picture on this region free (at least it played fine on my region A blu ray player) blu ray is full of detail for being from the early '60s. I cannot get over how clean this print is! Universal UK did wonders with this transfer. It is presented in its original 1.85 aspect ratio and the DTS-HD is only 2 channel mono, but not isolated to the center channel. There are no special features. I was fortunate enough to get this for ten US dollars, so I didn't expect much. But the transfer itself pays for this fine disc! Now if only Criterion would release this classic on blu ray here in the states...
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Guy Thuot Kingston, ON Canada
The blu-ray version of Cape Fear looks great. I was happy when I read that the disc was region free, but, it drives me crazy when a movie is released on blu-ray without any extras. Read more
Published 3 months ago by GUY JR THUOT
Excellent Blu ray transfer! Plays across the pond!
This was my first purchase from Amazon.co.uk. The original Cape Fear from 1962 is still not available in the U.S. I was very happy to read that one of the reviewers from the U.S. Read more
Published 3 months ago by KS62
A Top-notch classic thriller is a PERFECT Blu-ray transfer !!!
Greetings from across the pond...
I live in the U.S. and this movie I've been waiting patiently for it's blu-ray release in the U.S. Read more
I live in the U.S. and this movie I've been waiting patiently for it's blu-ray release in the U.S. Read more
Published 4 months ago by HiDefGuy
Earth calling Universal
As I have complained in these pages several times before, I am at a loss to understand what this company uses in place of brains for a distribution pattern. Read more
Published 5 months ago by killer b
Fantastic BR
This transfer is not flawless, but the flaws are few and don't disturb by any means the presentation of this great movie, that belongs to any collection. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Whiskeyjack
Superb!! Simply the best
I simply think this DVD is one of the best I have ever seen,Ihad a few problems finding it but it was absolutely worth it. Read more
Published on 18 Jan 2001 by venesia@verbania.com
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