Movies
July, 1965
John Fowles' best seller The Collector comes to the screen with all of veteran director William Wyler's wiles–maybe a few too many. A bit briefer would have been a lot better. The story, adapted by Stanley Mann and John Kohn, is about a cockney clerk who wins a pile in a football pool and extends his butterfly-collecting hobby to net a snooty girl whom he has worshiped from afar. He buys a lonely country house, chloroforms the chick and stashes her in the celler—not to attack her but to adore he...
