Filmed on location in Savannah and its many iconic landmarks, this edge-of-your-seat thriller hits chillingly close to home. Screen legend Robert Mitchum delivers a mesmerizing, menacing performance as Max Cady—a cigar-chomping, straw-hatted ex-con hellbent on revenge. Fresh out of prison after eight long years, Cady wastes no time targeting the man who helped put him there: upstanding lawyer and devoted family man Sam Bowden (Gregory Peck). The result is a nerve-shredding showdown that builds to one of the most harrowing climaxes in cinematic history.