Peeping Tom (1960 Michael Powell)

 

The film that all but killed Powell's career is no more violent or shocking than the same year's big hit Psycho, and shares with that film a sympathetic killer, here played by the recently deceased Karl-Heinz Böhm, a seriously nice man who devoted his later years to African charity projects.

In my ignorance I once thought that the gorgeously muted colour palette was borrowed from Cardiff, but it's clearly the work of Otto Heller.

Briskly put together by Noreen Ackland film has some humour but misses Pressburger, who when asked for his opinion claimed never to have seen it, which I find difficult to believe. Anna Massey finds herself on our screens once again; piano score by Brian Easdale