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Peeping Tom is the film that scandalised 60s Britain and wrecked its director's career - but inspired a new generation of film-makers and is now acclaimed as a masterpiece
It came out in 1960, a year in which cinema-goers were more accustomed to a diet of endless war films, romantic melodramas and - from America - John Wayne westerns.
Martin Scorsese, no stranger to extreme violence in his own movies such as Mean Streets and Taxi Driver, initially thought Powell was a pseudonym, but tracked him down in 1975 living 'beyond broke' in a freezing cottage in Gloucestershire. The plot revolves around a fictional film technician called Mark Lewis, played by German actor Carl Boehm, who has a side hustle taking pornographic photos. After meeting his neighbour Helen, who lives in the downstairs flat with her blind mother, he shows her black-and-white home-movies, filmed by his psychologist father, of the young Lewis being subjected to traumatic episodes as a child in order to further his research.
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