FILM NOIR CLASSICS Hosted by Foster Hirsch
Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck in
CAPE FEAR
35mm print!
Monday, June 26 at 7:30 pm
Members $11 | Public $16 | Free for Young Film Fans! | Includes reception
Gregory Peck is an ordinary family man terrorized by psychotic ex-con Robert Mitchum in this masterpiece of terror and suspense
Lee J. Thompson’s 1962 adaptation of John D. MacDonald’s The Executioners, is one of the great masterpieces of terror and suspense. In the annals of screen villains, few top Robert Mitchum’s Max Cady. Released after serving a 6-year prison sentence for committing a sadistic sex crime, Cady is waiting until he can take revenge on the prosecutor who put him away (Gregory Peck) – by targeting his wife and young daughter. Everything about Cady exudes menace, from his hooded eyes and sexual swagger to his undisguised contempt for everyone he meets. A classic Bernard Herrmann score drives this relentless and brilliant thriller, which was remade by Martin Scorsese in 1991. (US, 1962, 105 min., English, PG-13 | Dir. J. Lee Thompson)
Foster Hirsch, Professor at Brooklyn College, is a pioneer in the development of Film Studies and author of more than a score of important books ranging from works about Woody Allen, the Actors Studio and American theater to his magisterial biography, Otto Preminger: The Man Who Would Be King. His current work-in-progress is a sprawling study of film during the crucial transition period of the 1950s.