Hammerman Ikon

Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

Peeping Tom
1960
****
Director: Michael Powell
Cast: Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley, Brenda Bruce, Miles Malleson

Michael Powell's gripping thriller is essentially a story about moviemaking. It shows how far to the extreme an aspiring filmmaker would go to capture the perfect shot. In this case a member of a film crew kills women to capture their deaths on camera. Carl Boehm is a rather unconvincing Englishman but he's suitably chilling in the lead. This influential but controversial film just about destroyed Powell's career when it came out.