-Cape Fear- 1962
"Max Cady" - "She married a plumber. They wound up with a litter of kids, my own kid doesn't even know me. So, when I got out, I went to visit her.
The plumber was off plumbin' someplace and the kids were all in school. She picked up a poker and tried to hit me over the head with it.
And I took it away from her and calmed her down and she crawled in the corner. And I took her to a little spot about 50 miles down the road. That night, I made her call up the plumber and tell him she was taking a little vacation from him and the kids. Then I made her sit down and write me a love note. Asking me to invite her on a second honeymoon. She dated it and signed it. Made her write a lotta dirty words. Then I occupied her time for three days.
Beginning to get the picture, counselor?"
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"First, though, after smiling while drowning a man, he goes for Peck's wife, Polly Bergen, in a sadistically vicious confrontation on the housebouat. Mitchum proclaimed his disdain for The Method often enough, but Bergen testified that she didn't know who he was anymore, or what he was going to do next. That he had disappeared into Cady, and that, as he started punching, slapping her in a mounting frenzy, she was beginning to get frightened. 'It just suddenly got carried away...he was berserk...'"
"robert mitchum, solid, dad, crazy" by Damien Love