The Collector (Region Free)

(William Wyler, 1965)

Release date: 27 April 2020

Standard Edition Blu-ray

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.

INDICATOR STANDARD EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES

2K restoration

Original mono audio

The Guardian Interview with William Wyler (1981, 83