Wednesday, July 02, 2025

Jul 1st   
The Collector**     
(GB/US 1965)     
Columbia. 118m.

A withdrawn young bank clerk wins the pools and uses the money to buy a remote house for his butterfly collection, and then abducts an art student for his collection too.
Unsettling psychological drama, a more sympathetic rendering of the main plot elements of Psycho, not too extended (cut from an original length of nearly 3 hours), which is claustrophobic enough for anybody.

Written by: Stanley Mann, John Kohn, based on the novel by John Fowles.
Producers: Jud Kinberg, John Kohn.
Director: William Wyler.
Starring: Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar, Maurice Dallimore, Mona Washbourne.
Photography: Robert Krasker, Robert Surtees.
Music: Maurice Jarre.

THE COLLECTOR. Samantha Eggar and an easily recognisable profile of Kenneth More, whose role as lover/mentor was cut from release