Peeping Tom (1959)
Country: GB
Technical: col 109m
Director: Michael Powell
Cast: Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley
Synopsis:
A movie cinematographer is a closet scopophiliac who murders young women with the spike of his tripod so that he can film the fear in their eyes.
Review:
What with its lurid colour and risqué subject matter, this disquieting psychological thriller proved a scandalous failure for the director, with critics outdoing one another in indignation, putting Powell out in the cold for several years. He ups the ante brilliantly by casting himself as the hero's father and author of his disorder, and the young Boehm with whom audiences were most familiar from the Sissi movies! The film is now acknowledged as a rare attempt to air the issues that merely bubble beneath the surface of Hitchcock's work, but it was typical of us British to stigmatize the one film we had made to contribute serious thought on the cinema.
Country: GB
Technical: col 109m
Director: Michael Powell
Cast: Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley
Synopsis:
A movie cinematographer is a closet scopophiliac who murders young women with the spike of his tripod so that he can film the fear in their eyes.
Review:
What with its lurid colour and risqué subject matter, this disquieting psychological thriller proved a scandalous failure for the director, with critics outdoing one another in indignation, putting Powell out in the cold for several years. He ups the ante brilliantly by casting himself as the hero's father and author of his disorder, and the young Boehm with whom audiences were most familiar from the Sissi movies! The film is now acknowledged as a rare attempt to air the issues that merely bubble beneath the surface of Hitchcock's work, but it was typical of us British to stigmatize the one film we had made to contribute serious thought on the cinema.
Country: GB
Technical: col 109m
Director: Michael Powell
Cast: Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley
Synopsis:
A movie cinematographer is a closet scopophiliac who murders young women with the spike of his tripod so that he can film the fear in their eyes.
Review:
What with its lurid colour and risqué subject matter, this disquieting psychological thriller proved a scandalous failure for the director, with critics outdoing one another in indignation, putting Powell out in the cold for several years. He ups the ante brilliantly by casting himself as the hero's father and author of his disorder, and the young Boehm with whom audiences were most familiar from the Sissi movies! The film is now acknowledged as a rare attempt to air the issues that merely bubble beneath the surface of Hitchcock's work, but it was typical of us British to stigmatize the one film we had made to contribute serious thought on the cinema.