How to Watch 'Cape Fear,' Apple TV's New Series Produced by Martin Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese directed his feature-length version of Cape Fear, starring Robert De Niro and Nick Nolte, in 1991, and it was a remake of the 1962 version with Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum. The story in both films was the same: A lawyer named Sam Bowden and his family are terrorized by a newly-released criminal they helped send to prison.
In the 1991 film, Peck, Mitchum and another of their 1962 co-stars, Martin Balsam, all made cameos -- Easter eggs, if you will (did we even call them that then?) -- that served as a knowing nod to the original. Now, a 2026 limited...
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