Peeping Tom (1960)

Written by Leo Marks

Directed by Michael Powell

Running Time: 100 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1960

Rating: 18 Certificate

Filmed in Colour

This fascinating and disturbing thriller all but destroyed the career of director Michael Powell. Badly received and heavily criticised on its release in 1960, reassessment has shown it to be one of the most important films of its time.

Karlheinz Böhm plays Mark Lewis, a reclusive young cinematographer and part-time glamour photographer. As a child, Lewis was used as a guinea pig for his father's psychological experiments in fear and the nervous system. Terrible memories of these experiments have turned Lewis into a psychopathic killer, who films the look of terror in the eyes of his dying victims.

Into Lewis's life comes Helen Stephens (Anna Massey), a neighbour, who has no idea of the true content of the reels of film in his room, nor of his designs on one of his colleagues, Vivian (Moira Shearer)...

Highly recommended.

Cast

	Karlheinz Böhm		Mark Lewis
	Moira Shearer		Vivian
	Anna Massey		Helen Stephens
	Maxine Audley		Mrs. Stephens
	Brenda Bruce		Dora
	Miles Malleson		Elderly gentleman
	Esmond Knight		Arthur Baden
	Martin Miller		Dr. Rosan
	Bartlett Mullins		Mr. Peters
	Michael Goodliffe		Don Jarvis
	Nigel Davenport		Det. Sgt. Miller
	Jack Watson		Chief Insp. Gregg
	Shirley Anne Field		Diane Ashley
	Pamela Green		Milly
	Brian Wallace		Tony