Juri Nummelin:
> The earliest MacDonald film is however
> Edmond O'Brien's "Man-Trap" (1961) that is based on
some short story
"Taint of the Tiger" -- or so it is ususally claimed.
However, I happen to own a British Pan Books pb of a novel
titled
"Man-Trap" which comes complete with a still from the movie
on the back cover, and there it says that it had previously
been published as "Soft Touch"! So, what gives?
> So, "Cape Fear"
> is the only good MacDonald movie - if you can handle
Scorsese's
> heavy-handedness. I haven't seen the first version
of the film, but
> everyone seems to like it.
I usually like Scorcese, but this remake must rank as his
very worst movie ever, and calling it "heavy-handed" is an
understatement. I usually like De Niro, too (I saw "Heat"
last week -- brilliant!), but his over-acting here borders on
the ridicilous. No matter how he flexes his muscles and rolls
his eyes, he's outdone by Mitchum in the original, who merely
just had to stand there and smile to seem like your worst
nightmare ever.
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