Max Cady komt na 14 jaar voor mishandeling vrij en zoekt de advocaat op die toen bewijzen heeft achtergehouden die hem vrij hadden kunnen pleiten. Hij bedreigt de advocaat die met wettelijke middelen zijn vrouw en dochter van bijna 16 (dezelfde leeftijd als het slachtoffer) wil beschermen.
Nee, helaas is Cape Fear nog niet beschikbaar op Netflix in Nederland.
| Camera | Freddie Francis | Director of Photography |
| Art | Alan Hicks | Set Decoration |
| Directing | Martin Scorsese | Director |
| Production | Ellen Lewis | Casting |
| Writing | John D. MacDonald | Novel |
| Writing | Wesley Strick | Screenplay |
| Editing | Thelma Schoonmaker | Editor |
| Production | Frank Marshall | Executive Producer |
| Production | Barbara De Fina | Producer |
| Production | Kathleen Kennedy | Executive Producer |
| Art | Jack G. Taylor Jr. | Art Direction |
| Camera | Phillip V. Caruso | Still Photographer |
| Crew | J.B. Jones | Special Effects Coordinator |
| Costume & Make-Up | Edouard F. Henriques | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Rita Ryack | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Donna Battersby Greene | Hairstylist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Dorothy J. Pearl | Makeup Artist |
| Lighting | William Hines | Rigging Gaffer |
| Art | Henry Bumstead | Production Design |
| Crew | Leon Delaney | Stunt Coordinator |
| Costume & Make-Up | Elizabeth Lambert | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Edouard F. Henriques | Hairstylist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Lyndell Quiyou | Hairstylist |
| Lighting | Gene Engels | Gaffer |
| Sound | Skip Lievsay | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Sound | Kathy Durning | Music Editor |
| Directing | Corey B. Yugler | Script Supervisor |
| Camera | Gordon Hayman | Camera Operator |
| Costume & Make-Up | Kathleen Gerlach | Assistant Costume Designer |
| Crew | Neal Martz | Makeup Effects |
| Writing | James R. Webb | Original Film Writer |
| Sound | Elmer Bernstein | Conductor |
| Crew | Don Pulford | Stunts |
| Production | Dianne E. Collins | Publicist |
| Crew | Donna Evans | Stunt Double |
| Sound | Elmer Bernstein | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Bernard Herrmann | Original Music Composer |
| Art | Richard Adee | Property Master |
| Sound | Philip Stockton | Supervising Dialogue Editor |
| Sound | Marissa Littlefield | Dialogue Editor |
| Art | Wally Adee | Assistant Property Master |
| Directing | Joseph P. Reidy | First Assistant Director |
| Sound | T.J. O'Mara | Boom Operator |
| Crew | Doug Coleman | Stunt Double |
| Sound | Tom Fleischman | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
