| The Collector (1965) Country of Origin: UK/USA
Year of Production: 1965
Running Times: 119 mins
Format: Technicolor 35mm
Ratio: 1.85:1
Sound: mono CREDITS PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Collector Company/Columbia Pictures Corporation
Producers: Jud Kinberg, John Kohn
Production Manager: Philip Shipway SCRIPT
Script: Stanley Mann, John Kohn
Novel: John Fowles DIRECTION
Director: William Wyler
Assistant Directors: Roy Baird, Sergei Petschnikoff
2nd Unit Director: Robert Swink PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photographys: Robert Krasker, Robert Surtees
Camera Operators: John Harris, Andrew J. McIntyre
2nd Unit Camera Operator: Norman Warwick EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editors: David Hawkins, Robert Swink MUSIC
Music: Maurice Jarre
Music Editor: Richard Harris SOUND
Sound Supervisor: Charles J. Rice
Sound: Jack Solomon
Sound Recordist: Cyril Collick
Re-Recording: Clem Portman MAKE-UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up Supervisor: Rex Lane
Make Up: Harold Fletcher, Don Schoenfeld
Hair: Ruby Felker, Virginia Jones, Pearl Tipaldi
Women's Wardrobe: Vi Alford
Men's Wardrobe: Jack Martell
Wardrobe Mistress: Brenda Dabbs DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: John Stoll
Set Decorator: Frank Tuttle
Property Master: Tom Plews
Title Designer: Richard Kuhn
Drawings: Robin Vaccarino OTHER SOURCES
Script Supervisor: Isabelle Blodgett
Dialogue Coach: Kathleen Freeman LOCATIONS
Locations: Kent, England, UK, London, England, UK CAST
Terence Stamp (Freddie Clegg)
Samantha Eggar (Miranda Grey)
Mona Washbourne (Aunt Annie)
Maurice Dallimore (the neighbour)
Allyson Ames (1st victim - uncredited)
Gordon Barclay, David Haviland (clerks - both uncredited)
William Bickley (Crutchley - uncredited) PLOT SUMMARY Freddie is a socially inadequate and painfully shy bank clerk who spends his spare time collecting butterflies. When he wins the football pools and comes into a small fortune, he spends most of it on a remote country house and starts making plans to expand his collection - only this time, he wants human specimens and sets his sights on art student Miranda Grey... CAPSULE REVIEW A creepy and unsettling psycho-drama with outstanding performances from Samantha Eggar and Terence Stamp, the latter in particular impressing as the unhinged young collector of the title. Wyler's direction had rarely been better and he gets the maximum suspense from the limited locations and tiny cast. The ending is unusually bleak, leaving viewers drained. An excellent film, sadly not as widely seen or discussed today as it deserves to be. AVAILABILITY USA
Theatrical Distributor: Columbia Pictures CENSORSHIP HISTORY Finland
Rating: banned in 1965; K-18 Sweden
Rating: 15 UK
Rating: 15 USA
Rating: unrated AWARDS 1965
Cannes Film Festival
Best Actor (Terence Stamp) - winner
Best Actress (Samantha Eggar) - winner 1966
Academy Awards, USA
Best Actress in a Leading Role (Samantha Eggar) - nominated
Best Director (William Wyler) - nominated
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (John Kohn, Stanley Mann) - nominated Golden Globes, USA
Best Motion Picture Actress: Drama (Samantha Eggar) - winner
Best Motion Picture: Drama - nominated
Best Motion Picture Director (William Wyler) - nominated
Best Screenplay (John Kohn, Stanley Mann) - nominated Laurel Awards
Golden Laurel Dramatic Performance, Female (Samantha Eggar) - runner-up Writers Guild of America, USA
WGA Screen Award: Best Written American Drama (John Kohn, Stanley Mann) - nominated TIMELINE
1965
June
17: USA - theatrical release
October
4: Sweden - theatrical release
November
26: Finland - theatrical release
1966
February
1: Denmark - theatrical release
11: West Germany - theatrical release POSTER TAGS You won't dare open your mouth, but you'll be screaming for her to escape! ALTERNATIVE TITLES
El coleccionista - Argentinian/Spanish
title
Il collezionista - Italian title
Der Fänger - German title
Kolekcjoner - Polish title
Neitoperho - Finnish title
L'obsédé - French title
Offer for en samler - Danish title
KEYWORDS
book into film, kidnapping, butterflies, insanity
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