starring
Gregory Peck , Robert Mitchum Polly Bergen
When Max Cady. a sadistic ex-convict, is finally released from prison he has but one plan, to revenge himself on Sam Bowden , the respected small-town lawyer who got him convicted. Cady viciously terrorises Bowden and his family, forcing the lawyer first to take violent defensive action and then to take his wife and daughter to a remote hide-out. It is there that Cady decides to take revenge.
Screenplay by JAMES R. WEBB from the novel The Executioners by JOHN D. MACDONALD
Produced by SY BARTLETT
Directed by J LEE THOMPSON Films: page 19