Which twice-made movie features the villain Max Cady?
Max Cady Max Cady Max Cady is a fictional character and the primary antagonist of the John D. MacDonald novel "The Executioners". He was portrayed by Robert Mitchum in "Cape Fear" and Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese's remake. In both film versions of MacDonald's novel, Cady is a criminal with an obsessive grudge against an attorney named Sam Bowden (played by Gregory Peck in the first film and by Nick Nolte in the remake) who sent him to prison for rape. While in prison, Cady teaches himself to read as he nurtures his hatred of Bowden, made especially intense when his
Max Cady In the remake, Bowden is able to handcuff Cady's ankle to a railing in the houseboat before it hits submerged rocks and begins to break apart. The two exchange blows with rocks, and Bowden savagely attempts to bring a large rock down on Cady's head. Before he can do so, though, Cady is washed out into the river, still cuffed to part of the houseboat, madly crying out and speaking in tongues, and Bowden then watches as Cady is pulled to the bottom of the river and drowns. In the novel by John D. MacDonald, Sam testified against Max back