Nasty piece of work about a paroled rapist (a thoroughly malevolent Robert Mitchum, rivalling himself in The Night of the Hunter for sheer badness) who threatens an encore performance on the wife and/or daughter of the lawyer who put him away. Much superior to the remake by Scorsese (who re-used the Bernard Herrmann music); much more disturbing for leaving more to the imagination; and the journeyman director, J. Lee Thompson, even throws in a panning shot as tricky as any of Scorsese's, the more striking for its solitude. From a novel by John D. MacDonald. Gregory Peck, Polly Bergen, Lori Martin, Martin Balsam, Barrie Chase. (1962) — Duncan Shepherd
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