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The great Hollywood director William Wyler (Jezebel, Wuthering Heights, The Heiress, Ben-Hur) took John Fowles’ celebrated novel and turned it into one of the finest – and most controversial – psychological thrillers of the 1960s.
A lonely, unbalanced young butterfly collector (Terence Stamp, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Mind of Mr. Soames, Superman II) stalks and abducts a young art student (Samantha Eggar, Psyche 59, The Brood), keeping her imprisoned in a stone cellar as if she were one of his specimens.
Stamp and Eggar won Best Actor prizes for their roles at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival, and the film remains a surprising and often shocking depiction of psychotic obsession.
FEATURES:
2K restoration
Original mono audio
The Guardian Interview with William Wyler (1981, 83 mins): archival audio recording of the celebrated filmmaker in conversation with Adrian Turner at London’s National Film Theatre
The Guardian Interview with Terence Stamp (1989, 92 mins): archival audio recording of the award-winning actor in conversation with Tony Sloman at the National Film Theatre
Selected scenes commentary with author and film historian Neil Sinyard
Angel to Devil (2018, 13 mins): new and exclusive interview in which Terence Stamp remembers working with Wyler
Nothing But Death (2018, 16 mins): Award-winning actor Samantha Eggar recalls her work on the film in this new and exclusive interview
The Look of Stardom (1965, 3 mins): promotional film about the casting of Samantha Eggar
The Location Collector (2018, 8 mins): identifying the places where The Collector’s exteriors were filmed
Richard Combs on ‘The Collector’ (2018, 9 mins): a new appreciation by the renowned critic, lecturer and broadcaster
Original theatrical trailer
Original teaser trailers
Image gallery: promotional photography and publicity material
New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
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