THE COLLECTOR - BD

(William Wyler, 1965, 120 mins)

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 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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BBFC cert: 15
REGION FREE
EAN: 5060697920482