The Collector
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Short description
Freddie Clegg is a shy London bank clerk whose greatest passion is collecting butterflies. He knows everything there is to know about them, but his dealings with women are far less successful. After coming into money, he buys a large house in the countryside with the intention of adding a different kind of specimen to his collection: a young art student named Miranda Grey, whom he has admired from a distance. He abducts her and keeps her locked in the cellar, insisting that he means her no harm and that she will eventually come to care for him. As the weeks pass, Miranda tries various means of escape and resistance, and a tense relationship develops between captor and prisoner.
The film was directed by William Wyler, the twentieth of the twenty-two features he made, arriving between The Children's Hour and How to Steal a Million. Stanley Mann and John Kohn wrote the screenplay, and Kohn produced with Jud Kinberg for Columbia Pictures and Collector Company. Terence Stamp plays Freddie opposite Samantha Eggar as Miranda, with Mona Washbourne as Aunt Annie and Maurice Dallimore as a neighbor; Kenneth More appears as Miranda's older friend. It runs just under two hours. On IMDb it holds a rating of 7.5 from around 13,000 votes, and on TMDB 7.4 from roughly 235 votes, while the critics' score stands at 8 out of 10 from 16 reviews, so critical and audience assessments sit fairly close together.
What's left behind the scenes
- During the filming of the scene where Freddy (played by Terence Stamp) drags Miranda, played by Samantha Eggar, in the rain, the film’s director William Wyler ordered that the actress be doused with several buckets of water between takes without warning. Eggar later said that this made her feel incredibly “vulnerable,” which positively affected her performance.
- According to Samantha Eggar, the ending of "The Collector" could be considered unlawful because Freddy got away with murder, and showing something like that on screen was prohibited at the time. However, during the preview screening, censor John Trevelyan (1903-1986) – who had recently married a woman almost half his age – fell asleep and didn't see the film's ending. Otherwise, the actress said, "either the film would have been different, or someone would have been arrested, probably."
- According to Terence Stamp, director William Wyler (1902-1981) did not let Samantha Eggar leave the set during the day. He didn’t even allow her to eat during lunch breaks with anyone else. As Stamp claimed, Wyler knew exactly what he was doing, because during filming the director once whispered to him: “I know it looks cruel, but she will act even better because of it.”
- The film is based on John Fowles’ novel “The Collector” (1963).
- Serial killer Robert Berdella (1949-1992) cited this film as one of his sources of inspiration before committing his horrific crimes.
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