For today's post I think I should talk about a movie that came out at the start of the sixties. It was a movie that set the tone for what the movies in "The Decade" would become. I am referring to Peeping Tom. As you know the film shocked audiences when it came out in 1960 and even today some opinions have said that the film's shock value hasn't tone down a bit. As a result it has rarely been shown on TV. The movie was the brainchild of acclaimed director Michael Powell; who directed Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes. But when he directed Peeping Tom, his career was never the same after this as the film company (that made this film)in England was shocked at what he had done; and Powell was taken out of post-production. As a result, Powell spent the rest of his movie career in Australia.
The movie begins with Mark Lewis (Carl Boehm) a young man who works at a movie studio. He also kills people and films them before they die. His favorite target is women.
On paper some will say 'What drives a person like this to do sick deeds?' The answer may lie in the fact that Lewis' father took photos and home film of his son from his birth to mature age. The arguement continues over weather this daring film should be a classic.
Some have compared this film to what Alfred Hitchock did with Psycho that year, but for me this movie reminds me of another Hitch film that came out six years earlier and that is Rear Window while the obession with the camera (film or photography) was an eerie pre-cursor to Blow Up six years later.
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