"The Collector" by John Fowles is a 1963 debut novel by the English writer John Fowles. This novel was adapted as a feature film of the same name, -"The Collector" (1965)-, by Stanley Mann & John Kohn, and it was directed by William Wyler. This psychological thriller film, based on this 1963 novel, -"The Collector"-, written by John Fowles, starred Terence Stamp & Samantha Eggar.
["Frederick Clegg (Terence Stamp) is a lovely young man who collects butterflies. After winning a large sum of money in a football pool, he buys an isolated country house and begins stalking pretty, young art student, Miranda Grey (Samantha Eggar) . One day after following he in his van, Frederick kidnaps and chloroforms Miranda. He loads her unconscious body into the back of the van and drives to his new house, locking Miranda in the windowless stone cellar that he has prepared with a bed, some furnishings, and an electric heater. When Miranda awakens, she angrily demands to be released, but Frederick serves her tea instead. He later goes into London where the headlines are about Miranda's disappearance. When Frederick returns to Miranda, she says she is not rich and reasons he must only want for sex. Frederick instead proclaims his love for Miranda and tells her how they are from the same area in Reading. After realizing she cannot escape and he will not let her go, Miranda fakes appendicitis as a ploy to escape, but she is caught. After some haggling, Miranda "agrees" to stay for four weeks, but only if he gives her his word to let her go at the end of the time."] [Excerpt from Wikipedia.org]
Pictures from ""The Collector" film (1965) by William Wyler:
["Frederick Clegg (Terence Stamp) is a lovely young man who collects butterflies. After winning a large sum of money in a football pool, he buys an isolated country house and begins stalking pretty, young art student, Miranda Grey (Samantha Eggar) . One day after following he in his van, Frederick kidnaps and chloroforms Miranda. He loads her unconscious body into the back of the van and drives to his new house, locking Miranda in the windowless stone cellar that he has prepared with a bed, some furnishings, and an electric heater. When Miranda awakens, she angrily demands to be released, but Frederick serves her tea instead. He later goes into London where the headlines are about Miranda's disappearance. When Frederick returns to Miranda, she says she is not rich and reasons he must only want for sex. Frederick instead proclaims his love for Miranda and tells her how they are from the same area in Reading. After realizing she cannot escape and he will not let her go, Miranda fakes appendicitis as a ploy to escape, but she is caught. After some haggling, Miranda "agrees" to stay for four weeks, but only if he gives her his word to let her go at the end of the time."] [Excerpt from Wikipedia.org]
Pictures from ""The Collector" film (1965) by William Wyler:
