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Réalisé par : William WYLER
Pays : ETATS-UNIS
Prix : Prix d'interprétation masculine, 1965
Prix d'interprétation féminine, 1965

Equipe technique
Maurice JARRE - Musique
William WYLER - Réalisation
John KOHN - Scénario et dialogue
Stanley MANN - Scénario et dialogue
Robert KRASKER - Images
Robert L. SURTEES - Images

Interprètes
Maurice DALLIMORE
Samantha EGGAR
Terence STAMP
Mona VASHBOURNE

As one of the greatest directors of Hollywood's golden age, William Wyler had a long and distinguished roster of films to his credit, among them a number of classics (including Wuthering Heights and The Heiress) that rank among the finest literary adaptations to emerge from the studio system. Near the end of his career, Wyler focused his veteran skills on John Fowles's novel The Collector, and it's easy to see how Wyler would be drawn to the story's resonant psychological underpinnings. It's conceivable that the director was also fascinated by the cinematic precedents set by Alfred Hitchock's Psycho and Michael Powell's Peeping Tom; like those films, Wyler's 1965 production of The Collector focuses on the obsessions of a young man whose need for a woman's affection leads him to desperate measures at the expense of his object of desire. Terence Stamp was a fine choice for the role of Freddie Clegg, a young, nondescript bank clerk who wins a fortune in a sports pool and is financially liberated to pursue his psychological fixation--specifically a lovely London art student named Miranda Grey (Samantha Eggar) whom Freddie captures in the comfortably furnished cellar of his remote, newly purchased Tudor farmhouse. In many respects she is just...