Screening as part of the Moira Shearer & The Archers strand of The Red Shoes Festival.
Mark (Karlheinz Böhm), a focus puller at the local film studio, supplements his wages by taking glamour photographs in a seedy studio above a newsagent. By night he is a killer, stalking his victims with his camera forever in his hand, trying to capture the look of genuine, unadulterated fear – an obsession that stems from his disturbing and terrifying childhood at the hands of his scientist father. Mark slowly becomes enamoured with Helen (Anna Massey), who lives with her blind mother (Maxine Audley) in the flat downstairs, but how long before he turns the deadly gaze of his camera towards her? This strand pays homage to Moria Shearer's work alongside Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s British films.
Event Information Director: Michael Powell Cast: Karlheinz Böhm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey Production Year: 1960
