Summary
Drama starring Jack MacGowran and Jane Birkin. A butterfly collector becomes a compulsive voyeur after realising that he can spy on his neighbour, a beautiful model, through a crack in the wall.
Drama starring Jack MacGowran and Jane Birkin. A butterfly collector becomes a compulsive voyeur after realising that he can spy on his neighbour, a beautiful model, through a crack in the wall.
Here's a real find: one of the quintessential (and now forgotten) Swinging London films of the late 1960s. Watch eccentric professor Jack MacGowran peer through his hole in the wall at disturbed model Jane Birkin amid psychedelic butterfly effects and swirling sitars. The film is effectively director-less, Roman Polanski having wisely turned it down, proffering his protégé Joe Massot instead, a nice man with no noticeable talent. The movie is, uniquely, the sum of the work of its four superb collaborators: cameraman Harry Waxman, art director Assheton Gorton, editor Rusty Coppleman, and composer (and Beatle) George Harrison.
role | name |
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Oscar Collins | Jack MacGowran |
Penny | Jane Birkin |
Mrs Peurofoy | Irene Handl |
Perkins | Richard Wattis |
Young Man | Iain Quarrier |
Mother | Beatrix Lehmann |
role | name |
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Director | Joe Massot |