I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Overrated and overhyped

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

The film could easily have been entitled "Harassment." Robert Mitchum steals the show with his cynical portrayal of a man felt that he had been wronged and therefore sentenced to 8 years imprisonment. Upon his release, he begins his harassment of attorney Gregory Peck and Peck's family.The film does bring out the frustration of the justice system in being able to deal with Mitchum's harassment, as it is methodical and for the most part, he is not breaking any law until the violence erupts much later in the film.The usual Gregory Peck is not there. His performance lacked the emotional depth required by a man receiving such torment and yet unable to do something about it. Polly Bergen was terribly miscast as his wife. The emotions shown by her with the exception of the scene where she is attacked is greatly lacking.The ending about turning the tables so that Mitchum should suffer in prison was rewarding.

"A lawyer's family is stalked by a man he once helped put in jail." That was this very website's official synopsis for the film. And guess what. There really isn't a whole lot past the very written down narrative on screen.There is the fact a lot of scenes, perhaps three to four maybe five are totally unrealistic and help install a feeling of fictional cinematic experience rather than the atmosphere of poignant vivid suspense-driven thriller film than this Gregory Peck starring production promotes itself as being.There is a feeling of inevitability and predictability in how the developments occur, and this from the start to the very end.It holds up alright besides those points, but makes for too thick and unsubtle a viewing overall, and that can't be overlooked.

Sam Bowden (Gregory Peck) is a southern defense lawyer. Max Cady (Robert Mitchum) gets out of prison after spending over 8 years for an attack on a young woman after Bowden intervened and testified against him. Cady starts harassing Sam, his wife Peggy and young daughter Nancy. Sam's friend police chief Mark Dutton (Martin Balsam) is powerless to stop him. On Mark's suggestion, Sam hires private detective Charlie Sievers (Telly Savalas). He can't get rid of his stalker culminating in a life-and-death struggle.Director J. Lee Thompson is able to bring a Hitchcockian style to the movie. Robert Mitchum is great at being creepy. It's a tense crime drama from start to finish. Gregory Peck is the proper gentleman being pushed to the limits. It has a steady dark tone that is unrelenting with a constant sinister dramatic score.

A lawyer (Gregory Peck)'s family is stalked by a man (Robert Mitchum) he once helped put in jail.This may be one of the greatest thrillers of all time. And why not? You have Mitchum, who is great at playing dark and evil characters. This one is by far his darkest and most evil. And then you have Gregory Peck, who is best known for playing upstanding citizens, most notably Atticus Finch. So seeing him as the hero is easy.And then you have a story that goes above and beyond. This was 1962, and movies were relatively tame by the standards of today (2015). But not this one. Threats of murder, blackmail, rape... this is a vicious movie that is legitimately scary, and not in the campy way that a lot of early thrillers now are.