Michael Powell Michael Latham Powell (30 September 1905 – 19 February 1990) was a renowned English film director, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger. They worked together under the name of "The Archers" and produced a series of classic British films, notably The Thief of Bagdad (1940), 49th Parallel (1941), The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Matter of Life and Death (1946, also called Stairway to Heaven), Black Narcissus (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948). His controversial 1960 film Peeping Tom, however, was so vilified that his career was seriously damaged.

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User Comments You must Log in or Register to post comments. FitFortDanga So close to being a perfect film. Beautiful, witty, touching, inventive, and life-affirming. The performances are all endearing, Cardiff's work is astounding as usual, the set design is wonderful, the idea of it is intriguing, it all comes together exquisitely. Definitely my favorite film by The Archers. But the trial scene feels like it belongs to entirely different movie. It's awkward and transparent and just plain wrong. Other than that scene, though, I was really thrilled. Stain Completely above reproach. Powell and Pressburger at their absolute finest. Kim Hunter is so beautiful that you can totally buy David Niven falling in love with just her voice Spunkie An angel of death(who was a former human who lost his head in the French Revolution) from black and white heaven arrives at pastel earth and utters "one is starved for technicolor up there". Visually impressive as no less is expected, great humor, just passes real greatness by an inch because of some blank scenes that are not of much use. Just bear with the midpart that leads to a fun packed celestial,cultural,cerebral -if not manipulative- trial.