The vast amount of ink spilled on the subject of Michael Powell's 'Peeping Tom' (1960) is inclined to overlook this garrulous little curiosity (Norman Lee's directorial swan song), based on a 1947 West End hit by 'Peeping Tom's author Leo Marks. While Powell's film was ahead of its time in anticipating the way the camera shaped life, the hapless family in this film have spawned a young Goth decades too early ("We've taken her to the highest doctors and the lowest comedians, and still she can't laugh!"), with a backstory of child abuse by a responsible adult which anticipates both 'Peeping Tom' and Sam Fuller's 'The Naked Kiss'.
It would be interesting to see what a modern student of psychiatry would diagnose young Ruth's problem as...
It would be interesting to see what a modern student of psychiatry would diagnose young Ruth's problem as...