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Cape Fear’s chilling legacy lives on through two iconic films, each reimagining the tale of a vengeful ex-con hunting his lawyer — but with deeper moral shades in the 1991 remake. Nick Nolte’s lawyer carries heavier guilt than Gregory Peck’s stoic version, while Robert De Niro’s unhinged villain eclipses Mitchum’s restrained menace. The endings diverge too: prison for Cady in ’62, a watery death in ’91. And Scorsese’s genius? He brought back the originals — Peck as Cady’s corrupt lawyer, Mitchum as a morally gray cop — proving that in this world, no one’s truly black or white.

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