Max Cady - Mitchum Style

A tribute to the brilliance of Mr. Robert Mitchum as the original (and baddest) Max Cady in "Cape Fear" (1962).

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Entertainment

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• max cady
• robert mitchum
• cape fear

[dkupke]

DeNiro's version was an invincible psychotic. Mitchum's version was a thug who knows how the system works and knows how to handle himself-and hence, more realistic.

[lucyd75]

@dkupke Absolutely, and I think that makes him a lot scarier than De Niro as well!

[doctornoooo]

this scene is just about the best picture of a psychopath ever filmed. Mitchum is almost TOO believable. Anyone who ever even remotely feels he was not one of the greatest film actors ever, just try this one on for size

[lucyd75]

@doctornoooo couldn't agree more! :)

[bradleybravo]

Very good

[lucyd75]

Thanks very much, my very first music video. :)

[poetcomic1]

De Niro's interpretation was a complicated bore. Mitchum makes your blood run cold - he is like a force of nature. Mitchum was so scary that he had to joke and sweet talk to Polly Bergen after their harrowing scene together, just to get her to stop shaking!

[ActionSmaction]

@dkupke I agree, i get what you mean.

[dkupke]

@ActionSmaction Not to detract from DeNiro's version at all, really. As an actor myself, I appreciate the level of dedication DeNiro threw into his version of Cady, and it was indeed a memorable and disturbing character. But to me Mitchum's version was a little more real, which made it creepier and easier to relate to. I've never met anyone like DeNiro's Cady, but I've encountered people all too much like Mitchum's.

[ActionSmaction]

@dkupke Okay might i ask since when is "more realistic" a factor that makes a performance better? acting and directing is an art not a science, and i think mitchum's Cady was good but De Niro gave Cady the illusion of not only being invincible to pain; but invincible to the law and to Nick's attempts at locking him away. it's not how you compare it to reality, its how you interperate it. And De Niro in combination with Martin Scorsese is art at its finest.

[peppersax]

Why would you take out the GREAT BERNARD HERRMANN'S score and place this piece of shit in it's place? Go listen to BH you moron!!!

[theddiissccoo]

Im not surprised Polly Bergen sounded oragsmic

[YugNotsnhoj]

de niro is a midget puppy

[ertzuiop123]

Good job with the video :) You people should now De Niro was basing his Cady on two Mitchum's roles, one from "Cape Fear" 1962, the other from "Night of the Hunter". Check that movie out.