A man kidnaps a woman and holds her hostage just for the pleasure of having her there.
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Title: The Collector (1965)
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Terence Stamp | ... | Freddie Clegg | |
| Samantha Eggar | ... | Miranda Grey | |
| Mona Washbourne | ... | Aunt Annie | |
| Maurice Dallimore | ... | The Neighbor | |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Kenneth More | ... | Miranda's Older Friend (scenes deleted) | |
Freddie, a socially withdrawn bank clerk and butterfly collector, decides to expand to collecting human specimens. That's where art student Miranda Grey comes in. Miranda matches wits with Freddie the icy psychopath. Written by A.M.Putnam
This intensely creepy film showcases director William Wyler in his intimate, character-study mode, and features a superb performance from Terrence Stamp in the title role, as the "collector" of beauty. Stamp creates a portrait of sexual obsession that is every bit as unsettling in its way as the long legacy of serial killer movies in existence. Samantha Eggar, as one of Stamp's "specimens," is used more as a catalyst for driving the plot and less as a character for whom we have any great deal of interest. Is that a flaw of the material or the intention of Wyler and novelist John Fowles, on whose book this is based? If their intention was to make us sympathize with, and even relate to, the character with the obsession, they succeed brilliantly.
The ending genuinely surprised me, which happens all too infrequently in movies like this. The film feels like a product of independent cinema before independent cinema really existed.
Grade: A