71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Peeping Tom

Michael Powell
     109 m.
Synopsis
Mark, a studio camera assistant and amateur filmmaker, has grown up in the shadow of his father's psychological experiments, practised on him as a child. While he now experiments by filming his murders, he forms a tentative relationship with Helen, who lives with her blind mother in the same house, and wants him to illustrate her children's book about a magic camera. But Mark cannot resist his murderous compulsion and finally films his own death.
Director
Michael Powell
Screenplay
Leo Marks
Photography
Otto Heller
Edition
Noreen Ackland
Music
Brian Easdale
Cast
Carl Boehm (Mark Lewis), Anna Massey (Helen Stephens), Moira Shearer (Vivian), Michael Powell (Mark's Father), Columba Powell (Mark as a child)
Running Time
109 m.
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