Peeping Tom. 1960. Directed by Michael Powell

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Peeping Tom. 1960. UK. Directed by Michael Powell. Courtesy Rialto Pictures

Peeping Tom. 1960. UK. Directed by Michael Powell. Screenplay by Leo Marks. With Karlheinz Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey. 4K DCP courtesy Rialto Pictures. 102 min.

“Was it Peeping Tom’s insistence on the morbidity of watching as well as making films that so repelled British critics? Some at least later recognised its genius (Pressburger, sadly, never did). In this profoundly uncomfortable study of a murderous ‘scopophiliac,’ Soho’s seedy underbelly, and the eroticism of fear, Powell out-Hitchcocks Hitchcock—not least with the filmmaker’s own sinister cameo” (BFI).

Restored by The Film Foundation and BFI National Archive in association with Studiocanal. Funding provided by The Film Foundation and Studiocanal. Special thanks to Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker for their consultation. 4K scanning by Silver Salt Restoration Limited, London; Picture restoration by Cineric, Inc., New York; Audio restoration by BFI National Archive.

This film accompanies Cinema Unbound: The Creative Worlds of Powell and Pressburger.

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