The Collector (1965)

The Collector is a British-American thriller-drama film released in 1965 directed by William Wyler. The story is based on the novel of the same name from 1963 by John Fowles. The film was nominated for Academy Awards for best screenplay, best director and best leading actress (Samantha Eggar). The production actually won the Golden Globe for best actress (Eggar) and both the prize for best lead actress (Eggar) as those for best lead actor (Terence Stamp) at the 1965 Cannes Film festival . ==Story[ Edit] == Freddie Clegg (Terence Stamp) is an avid collector of butterflies. That's his lust and his life. Social contacts with other people, he did not. He wants to do, but do not know how he has to make contact with other people in a way that they accept him. Therefore sat Clegg on his work for a bank in the corner only to do his best and he was bullied by his peers. Who found him a freak. He stopped his work when he won a football pool and 71,000 pounds sterling got. When Clegg on a sunny afternoon in the countryside behind a butterfly aanjoeg, he came there by chance a free and for sale standing House with a large basement space. He bought it and was living alone.

One afternoon is Clegg in his van for the exit of the Blake School of Art and he spies on the female students as that come out. He focuses his attention specifically on Miranda Grey (Samantha Eggar). He pursues her and once they retired from her friend and with the tram to a different part of London has traveled in a quiet alley, he seizes his chance. While Grey along trying to wriggle his van, he intoxicates her with chloroform and takes her in his van to take home. Clegg takes her to his basement, which he has decorated as a home and bedroom in one. There is a sink, a bed, a lamp, a wardrobe with clothes in her size in it and there are books that apply to her art studies. There he lays Grey in bed, where she later wakes up and notices that she locked. She has no idea where she is.

Moments later, the door of the lock and comes with a nicely in suit and Clegg within, tray with tea and a meal for her. He knows her name and background, and assures her that this is not a kidnapping for ransom is because he knows that her father Charles is not a rich man. On the other hand, he wants them to be ' guest ' is and tells her that this is her room. Clegg explains all in love on her since she was a couple of times with him in the same bus in Reading sat and that his feelings for her never left, even after she moved to London. Clegg wants with it agree that they are a few weeks-locked-' guest ' remains, so he has the same feelings at the chance to loosen her for him. He promises ever-respectful with her to go so they will know him as he is. He knows he risks a life sentence for his act, but says it is ready to take this risk for her.

Grey has no idea who Clegg is and just want to as soon as possible. When she realised that her that is not going to succeed, then they agree to four weeks are to be "guest". In it she promises to give him the chance to loosen something at her, but he must promise that they should without a problem if they still want that after four weeks. They may also write a letter to them that demands her parents, that they should get more in bad light and air, and that he gives her some extra stuff for her study. He is in there all along, glad they agree to stay four weeks. Grey, on the other hand, is not going to give him any chance at all, but wants her time serving and then go away. When occasions arise to escape preferably rather than after four weeks. Clegg appears here only meticulously prepared and is not just to manipulate. The Windows and doors are locked in his house or boarded up and behaving themselves not sincere to him, when Grey he sees through this every time.

Clegg sticks to his promise to treat her as respectful as possible. He is not forcing him to do so with violent unless they escape attempts, not to her imposes itself physically on and want good talks with her and try to understand more of her world. Just be evil he is every time he gets the feeling that they give him a fair chance. For him, this means also in that she admits that The Catcher in The Rye is nothing more than a story about a unsympathetic figure and that the paintings of Pablo Picasso actually no sense, were it not for the fact that elitist snobs have mutually agreed that this is so. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] ==
 * Terence Stamp - Freddie ' Franklin' Clegg
 * Samantha Eggar - Miranda Grey
 * Mona Washbourne -Cleggs, aunt Annie
 * Maurice Dallimore - Colonel Windham, the neighbor