Miranda attempts to flee the house, but he corners her in his study and chloroforms her before lying with her in an upstairs bedroom.
She agrees, but Freddie senses her hesitation. Over dinner, he asks Miranda to marry him. On the thirtieth-and allegedly final day of her captivity, Freddie prepares a meal in the house for Miranda and gives her a dress to wear for the occasion. He proclaims that they could never be friends in "the real world". During a conversation about art and literature, Miranda further alienates Freddie, who accuses her of being an elitist. He allows Miranda to write a letter to her mother but discovers a small piece of paper in the envelope asking for help, and tears the letter apart in front of her. She floods the bathroom in an attempt to get Whitcombe's attention, but Freddie diverts him, claiming his girlfriend inadvertently left the tub running.įreddie recurrently mentions one of Miranda's boyfriends, with whom he observed her socialising on numerous occasions. During one of her baths, Freddie's neighbour, Colonel Whitcombe, arrives at the farmhouse to introduce himself, resulting in Freddie gagging Miranda and tying her to pipes in the bathroom.
When he fondles her aggressively, she tells him she will not fight him should he rape her, but that she will lose all respect for him.
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Freddie agrees that he will free Miranda after four weeks, an allotted period he believes will allow her to "get to know him".įreddie gradually allows Miranda small luxuries, such as leaving the cellar to obtain sunlight and take baths in the house under his supervision. When he proclaims his love for Miranda, she fakes appendicitis as a ploy to escape but is caught. Freddie explains he is not seeking sex or ransom he explains that he and Miranda used to ride on the same bus years earlier in Reading and that he continued to follow her into London after she enrolled in art school. She assumes she has either been taken for ransom or to be used as a sex slave and insists to Freddie that her father is not wealthy. Miranda awakens inside the cavernous, windowless stone cellar of Freddie's farmhouse, which he has adorned with a bed, furnishings, clothing, painting tools, and an electric heater. One day, Frederick follows Miranda into a pub in Hampstead before abducting her on the street, incapacitating her with chloroform. Frederick begins stalking a bourgeois London art student named Miranda Grey. An amateur entomologist, he spends his time capturing butterflies, of which he has a large collection. It was the last of Wyler's record 12 Academy Award nominations for Best Director.įreddie is a lonely, socially-awkward young man who purchases a 17th century farmhouse with winnings he has earned from the football pools. Eggar won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for her performance, and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, while Wyler received a nomination for Best Director. Upon its theatrical release in June 1965, the film received largely favourable reviews. The Collector premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 1965, where both Stamp and Eggar won the awards for Best Actor and Best Actress, respectively. Wyler's original cut ran approximately three hours but was trimmed to two hours at the insistence of the studio and producer. Filming occurred in the late spring and early summer of 1964. Most of the film was shot on soundstages in Los Angeles, though exterior sequences were filmed on location in London, Forest Row in East Sussex and Westerham in Kent. Wyler turned down The Sound of Music to direct the film. It is based on the 1963 novel of the same title by John Fowles, with the screenplay adapted by Stanley Mann and John Kohn. Its plot follows a young Englishman who stalks a beautiful art student before abducting and holding her captive in the basement of his rural farmhouse. The Collector is a 1965 psychological horror film directed by William Wyler and starring Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar.
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