After an eight-year prison term for rape and assault, Max Cady (Robert Mitchum) is set free. Immediately making a beeline to Sam Bowden (Gregory Peck), the former prosecutor responsible for Cady's conviction, Cady laconically informs Sam that he intends to pay back the attorney for his years behind bars.
In America, less than 10 percent of couples delay the exchanging of wedding vows longer than two years once the decision to tie the knot has been made. According to various sources, the average engagement last year spanned 13 to 16 months.
First off, they found that the average engagement ring costs $4,758, which is â not cheap. There are different conventions about how much to spend on such a ring, often based on how much the person proposing makes in a year â there's the one month's salary rule of thumb, for example, or the two month's salary rule, or the do-your-thang rule. There is even an engagement ring calculator out there.