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Peeping Tom [Special Edition]

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Format:	DVD

Starring:	Carl Boehm \| Maxine Audley \| Anna Massey \| Moira Shearer

Director:	Michael Powell \| Otto Heller

Screen:	Aspect Ratio 1.78:1

Languages:	English

No. of Disks:	1

Region:	Region 2

Release Date:	26 March 2007

Availability:	Usually dispatched within 3 days

From Michael Powell, the acclaimed director of a Matter of Life and Death and The Red Shoes, comes one of the most controversial films ever made in Britain, and a masterpiece of psychological terror.

By day, Mark Lewis (Carl Boehm) works as a focus-puller un a film studio, supplementing his income by shooting glamour photographs for a seedy Soho newsagent. By night he seeks victims for his gruesome obsession with filming the look of pure, unadulterated fear - the legacy of his father's sadistic experiments on him as a child.

Released in 1960, shortly before Hitchcock's equally shocking Psycho, the film was praised by the leading trade paper kine Weekly as 'at once tender as well as horrifying'. But it provoked British critics to a fury of disgust: 'the sickest and filthiest film I can remember seeing' (The Spectator); while Tribune wanted it 'flushed swiftly down the nearest sewer'.

Powell's career never recovered from the scandal. But twenty years later, Peeping Tom was hailed as a misunderstood masterpiece - especially by filmmakers such as a misunderstood masterpiece - especially by filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese and Bertand Tavernier - and today its wit and beauty, as well as its insight into the voyeurism of cinema, have made it a modern classic.

Special Features

New introduction by Martin Scorsese.
New Commentary By Ian Christie.
'The Eye of the Beholder' Documentary.
'The Strange Gaze of Mark Lewis' Documentary.
Original Trailer.
Behind-The-Scenes Photo Gallery.
Booklet containing Essay, Interview with Writer Leo Marks, and Extract from Mich