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The Collector (1965)

Director: William Wyler

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From Time Out Film Guide

Wyler's adaptation of John Fowles' excruciatingly cunning first novel maintains a velvet-gloved grip throughout. A psychopathically repressed lepidopterist uses his football pool winnings to abduct a vibrant young art student and pin her down at all costs. Fowles extended the desperate captive-captor relationship into a multi-faceted metaphor, probing into everything from primal sexual politics and the class war to the responsibility of the artist and the dead soul of '60s England.

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Cast & crew

Director: William Wyler

Producer: Jud Kinberg, John Kohn

Cast: Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar, Mona Washbourne, Maurice Dallimore, Kenneth More full cast

Duration: 120 mins


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