The Collector (film)

Infobox Film | name =The Collector (1965 film)


caption = original movie poster
director = William Wyler
producer = Jud Kinberg
John Kohn
writer = John Fowles (novel)
Stanley Mann
John Kohn
starring =Terence Stamp
Samantha Eggar
Mona Washbourne
music = Maurice Jarre
| editing =
distributor = Columbia Pictures
released = June 17, 1965 US release
runtime = 119 min
language = English
budget =
amg_id = 1:10231
imdb_id = 0059043

"The Collector" is a 1965 film based on the 1963 novel "The Collector" by John Fowles. The film was adapted by Stanley Mann and John Kohn and was directed by William Wyler (who turned down The Sound Of Music to do it). It starred Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar.

Cast

* Terence Stamp as Freddie Clegg
* Samantha Eggar as Miranda Grey
* Mona Washbourne as Aunt Annie
* Maurice Dallimore as Neighbour
* Allyson Ames as First victim
* William Bickley as Crutchley
* Gordon Barclay as Clerk
* David Haviland as Clerk
* Kenneth More as 'GP' (scenes deleted)

Reception

It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Samantha Eggar), Best Director (William Wyler) and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, but the only awards it was to win were at Cannes.

Terence Stamp later confessed in his autobiography his own surprise as being chosen for the role (he'd expected Anthony Perkins or John Hurt to play Clegg). Having been chosen, he assumed (as had most others) that Julie Christie—regarded at that time as the best young actress of the era—would be given the role of Miranda, but Wyler chose Eggar because he thought it would introduce the correct air of sexual tension and awkwardness between the two protagonists—Stamp having been turned down by Eggar when both were at college.

External links

*" [http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/10231/The-Collector/overview The Collector film profile] " at "The New York Times"
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