---
title: 'Peeping Tom (1960)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Michael Powell'
released: '1960-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 101
genres:
  - 'Horror'
  - 'Crime'
  - 'Thriller'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/peeping-tom-1960'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054167/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Peeping Tom (1960)

1960 · 101 min · Horror, Crime, Thriller · United Kingdom


## Synopsis

Peeping Tom is a 1960 British psychological horror-thriller film directed by Michael Powell, written by Leo Marks, and starring Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey and Maxine Audley. The film revolves around a serial killer who murders women while using a portable film camera to record their dying expressions of terror, putting his footage together into a snuff film used for his own self-pleasure. Its title derives from the expression "Peeping Tom", which describes a voyeur.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Michael Powell](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-powell)
- **Producer:** [Michael Powell](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-powell), [Nat Cohen](https://cinepixo.com/people/nat-cohen)
- **Screenplay:** [Leo Marks](https://cinepixo.com/people/leo-marks)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Brian Easdale](https://cinepixo.com/people/brian-easdale)
- **Director of Photography:** [Otto Heller](https://cinepixo.com/people/otto-heller)

## Cast

- [Michael Powell](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-powell)
- [Esmond Knight](https://cinepixo.com/people/esmond-knight)
- [Maxine Audley](https://cinepixo.com/people/maxine-audley)
- [Jack Watson](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-watson)
- [Martin Miller](https://cinepixo.com/people/martin-miller)
- [Miles Malleson](https://cinepixo.com/people/miles-malleson)
- [Shirley Anne Field](https://cinepixo.com/people/shirley-anne-field)
- [Michael Goodliffe](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-goodliffe)
- [Moira Shearer](https://cinepixo.com/people/moira-shearer)
- [Karlheinz Böhm](https://cinepixo.com/people/karlheinz-bohm)
- [Pamela Green](https://cinepixo.com/people/pamela-green)
- [Brenda Bruce](https://cinepixo.com/people/brenda-bruce)
- [Anna Massey](https://cinepixo.com/people/anna-massey)

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