The Collector (film)
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| The Collector (1965 film) | |
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| [[Image:<Collector_sheet_A.jpg|200px|]] original movie poster |
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| Directed by | William Wyler |
| Produced by | Jud Kinberg John Kohn |
| Written by | John Fowles (novel) Stanley Mann John Kohn |
| Starring | Terence Stamp Samantha Eggar Mona Washbourne |
| Music by | Maurice Jarre |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | June 17, 1965 US release |
| Running time | 119 min |
| Language | English |
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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.
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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.
