<Tr> <Th> Country </Th> <Td> United States </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Language </Th> <Td> English </Td> </Tr> <P> Cape Fear is a 1962 American psychological thriller film starring Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck, Martin Balsam, and Polly Bergen . It was adapted by James R. Webb from the novel The Executioners by John D. MacDonald . It was initially storyboarded by Alfred Hitchcock (slated to direct but quit over a dispute), subsequently directed by J. Lee Thompson, and released on April 12, 1962 . The movie concerns an attorney whose family is stalked by a criminal he helped to send to jail . </P> <P> Cape Fear was remade in 1991 by Martin Scorsese . Peck, Mitchum, and Balsam all appeared in the remake . </P>

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