Peeping Tom (1960)


Peeping Tom
Release Date07 April 1960
TaglineYears ahead of its time and still one of the most disturbing and psychologically complex horror films ever made! (DVD)
GenreDrama, Horror, Thriller
CountryUK
Filming Locations29 Rathbone Place, Fitzrovia, London, England, UK
LanguageEnglish
Sound MixMono
ColorColor
Film TypeFeature
Film ClassPsychological Thriller
MoodNail-biters
ThemesVoyeurs, Serial Killers, Haunted By the Past, Fathers and Sons
TonesDisturbing, Tense, Reflective, Atmospheric, Creepy, Understated
TagsAbuse, Child, Child Abuse, Death, Family, Investigation, Kill, Lure [tempt], Maniac, Murder, Obsession, Psychopath, Suicide, Suicide Attempt, Video Camera, Video Tape

Peeping Tom is a 1960 British psychological thriller/horror film directed by Michael Powell and written by the World War II cryptographer and polymath Leo Marks. The title derives from the slang expression 'peeping Tom' describing a voyeur. The film revolves around a serial killer who murders women while using a portable movie camera to record their dying expressions of terror.


Cast and Crew


Cast

Mark Lewis

Vivian

Helen Stephens

Mrs. Stephens

Brenda Bruce
Dora

Elderly gentleman customer

Arthur Baden

Martin Miller
Dr. Rosan

Don Jarvis

Chief Insp. Gregg

Diane Ashley

Milly, the model

John Barrard
Small man

Det. Baxter

John Chappell
Clapper boy

Roland Curram
Young man in sports car

Det. Sgt. Miller

John Dunbar
Police doctor

Maurice Durant
Publicity chief

Paddy Edwards
Girl electrician

Girl in sports car leaving studio

Miss Simpson, Jarvis' secretary

M. Le Compte
Lover in garden

Mme. Le Compte
Lover in garden

Bartlett Mullins
Mr. Peters, news agent shop owner

Young man embracing girl

Margaret Neale
Mark's stepmother

Columba Powell
Mark as a child

Mark's father, A.N. Lewis

Guy Kingsley Poynter
P. Tate, Studio cameraman

Frankie Reidy
Mark's mother on deathbed

Alan Rolfe
Store detective

Frank Singuineau
Electrician #1

Peggy Thorpe-Bates
Mrs. Partridge

Susan Travers
Lorraine, the model

Brian Wallace
Tony, downstairs lodger in Lewis' house

Brian Worth
Assistant director

Director

Writer

Leo Marks

Producer

Albert Fennell
associate producer

producer

Original Music

Brian Easdale
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Cinematographer

Otto Heller

Editor

Noreen Ackland
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Art Director

Arthur Lawson
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Makeup Department

Pearl Orton
hairdressing

W.T. Partleton
makeup artist

Production Manager

Alfred W. Marcus
production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Ted Sturgis
assistant director

Denis Johnson
second assistant director

Denis Johnson Jr.
second assistant director

Carl Mannin
third assistant director

Art Department

Ivor Beddoes
assistant art director

Don Picton
set dresser

Ronnie Udell
construction manager

Maurice Pelling
draughtsman

Sound Department

Malcolm Cooke
sound editor

C.C. Stevens
sound recordist

Gordon K. McCallum
sound, sound mixer, sound recordist

Camera and Electrical Department

Vic Smith
chief electrician

Gerry Turpin
camera operator

Jim Body
focus puller

Derek V. Browne
focus puller

Norman Gryspeerdt
still photographer

Costume and Wardrobe Department

Polly Peck
dresses: Miss Anna Massey

Dickie Richardson
wardrobe

John Tullis
dress: Miss Moira Shearer

Editorial Department

Alma Godfrey
assistant editor

John Rushton
assistant editor

Music Department

Brian Easdale
music director

Angela Morley
composer: percussion numbers

Freddie Phillips
composer: dance music

Gordon Watson
musician: solo piano

Other Crew

Nat Cohen
presenter

Judith Coxhead
production assistant

Rita Davison
continuity

Stuart Levy
presenter

Bill Paton
production assistant

Bill Burnside
publicist

Tommy Linden
choreographer: Ms. Shearer

photographic consultant

Production Company

Michael Powell (Theatre)
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Distributor

Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Astor Pictures Corporation

Thorn EMI Video

Rialto Pictures

Cinema Mondo

Criterion Collection, The
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Universal Pictures Finland Oy

Admit One Video

Canal+
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Image Entertainment

Warner Home Video

Miscellaneous

Millinery Guild
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