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Four of John Fowles’ novels have been adapted into films: The Collector, The Magus, The French Lieutenant’s Woman and The Ebony Tower. Click here for all the details, including DVD and Blu-ray availability.
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The Collector: Directed by William Wyler. With Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar, Mona Washbourne, Maurice Dallimore. A man kidnaps a woman and holds her hostage just for the pleasure of having her there.
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- Drama, Thriller
- William Wyler
- 1965-08-14
The Magus is a 1968 British mystery film directed by Guy Green and starring Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn, Candice Bergen and Anna Karina. [3] The screenplay was written by John Fowles based on his 1965 novel of the same name.
The Collector is a 1963 thriller novel by English author John Fowles, in his literary debut. Its plot follows a lonely young man who kidnaps a female art student in London and holds her captive in the cellar of his rural farmhouse.
An astounding array of talent came together for the big-screen adaptation of John Fowles’s novel The French Lieutenant’s Woman, a postmodern masterpiece that had been considered unfilmable.
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One of the directors who tried to lick “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” was John Frankenheimer, who complained: “There is no way you can film the book. You can tell the same story in a movie, of course, but not in the same way. And how Fowles tells his story is what makes the book so good.”
