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Mood:
- SuspensefulTenseDisturbing
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Plot:
- Mentally UnstableMind GameObsessionPsychologicalLove AffairMissing PersonWoman in DangerPsychopath more...
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Genres:
- ThrillerDrama
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century60s
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Place:
- Bank
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Praise:
- Critically AcclaimedCannes Festival Winner
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Based on:
- Based on Book
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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The Collector, 1965
English
UK, USA
Profile of The Collector
The Collector can be described as tense, suspenseful, and disturbing. The plot revolves around mental instability, a missing person, and mind games. The main genres are thriller and drama. In approach, The Collector is serious and realistic. It is set, at least in part, in a bank. It takes place in the 1960s. The Collector is based on a book. The movie has received attention for being a Cannes festival winner and critically acclaimed.
Summary of The Collector
Upon winning a sweepstakes prize, Freddie Clegg (Terence Stamp), an inconspicuous and deeply troubled young man, spends his time capturing and cataloging butterflies. Meeting lovely art student Miranda Grey (Samantha Eggar), he has now found another creature he wishes to possess. Exercising maniacal patience, Freddie manages to bag his prey using a handkerchief soaked in chloroform. He brings Miranda to his isolated farmhouse and holds her prisoner, all the while trying to convince her to love him.
This frightening tale of obsessive admiration is one of the key cinematic works in understanding the class and cultural clashes of the 1960s. Samantha Eggar's liberated woman, open about sex and knowledgeable about art, frustrates Terence Stamp's repressed captor, adding further tension to the situation. Nearing the end of a brilliant career, director William Wyler made an uncharacteristic choice to adapt John Fowles' disturbing novel as the follow-up to another bold work, his adaptation of THE CHILDREN'S HOUR (1961).
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | UK, USA |
| Release date: | 17 June 1965 |
| Runtime: | 119 min |
| Awards: | Cannes |
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as Freddie Clegg
as Miranda Grey
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