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Cape Fear (1962): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

Cape Fear is a 1962 thriller, drama, crime film directed by J. Lee Thompson. It scores 7.7 on IMDb, 89% on Rotten Tomatoes, 76 on Metacritic, 7.4 on TMDB. Audiences and critics largely agree: IMDb users and Metacritic critics are within 1 points of each other once scaled to 100. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 20 of 67 films from 1962 in our catalog and number 111 of 1,701 thriller films.

Billed cast: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Martin Balsam, Lori Martin, Jack Kruschen.

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