The Collector (1965) [N/A]

Release Date:
June 17, 1965

Original Title:
The Collector

Alternate Titles:
L'obsédé
The Butterfly Collector
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수집가

Genres:
Thriller

Production Companies:
Collector Company
Columbia Pictures

Production Countries:
United Kingdom | United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
DE: 18  IE: 15  JP: PG12 

Runtime: 119

Almost a love story.

Freddie is an inept bank clerk with no future. His only hobby is collecting butterflies, which gives him a feeling of power and control that is otherwise totally missing from his life. He comes into a large sum of money and buys himself a country house. Still unable to make himself at ease socially, he starts to plan on acquiring a girlfriend - in the same manner as he collects butterflies. He prepares the cellar of the house to be a collecting jar and stalks his victim over several days.

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Additional Writing:
Terry Southern

Art Direction:
John Stoll

Assistant Director:
Sergei Petschnikoff
Roy Baird

Camera Operator:
Norman Warwick
John Harris
Andrew J. McIntyre

Dialogue Coach:
Kathleen Freeman

Director:
William Wyler

Director of Photography:
Robert Krasker
Robert Surtees

Editor:
David Hawkins
Robert Swink

Hairstylist:
Ruby Felker
Virginia Jones
Pearl Tipaldi

Makeup Artist:
Harold Fletcher
Don Schoenfeld

Makeup Supervisor:
Ben Lane

Music Editor:
Richard C. Harris

Novel:
John Fowles

Original Music Composer:
Maurice Jarre

Producer:
John Kohn
Jud Kinberg

Production Manager:
Philip Shipway

Property Master:
Tom Plews

Screenplay:
Stanley Mann
John Kohn

Script Supervisor:
Isabel Blodgett

Second Unit Director:
Robert Swink

Set Decoration:
Frank Tuttle

Sound Designer:
Jack Solomon

Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Clem Portman

Sound Recordist:
Cyril Collick

Sound Supervisor:
Charles J. Rice

Title Designer:
Richard Kuhn

Wardrobe Master:
Jack Martell
Brenda Dabbs
Vi Alford

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