‘Cape Fear’ 50th Anniversary: Robert Mitchum’s Max Cady Fathers Modern Movie Villainy

For some reason, Robert Mitchum’s Max Cady in the original “Cape Fear” lands at only No. 28 on the AFI’s list of the top 50 on-screen villains of all time. (That’s just one notch above Mitchum’s Rev. Harry Powell in “Night of the Hunter,” a similarly terrifying killer, the one with “L-O-V-E” and “H-A-T-E” tattooed…
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