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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.
It is based on the 1963 novel of the same title by John Fowles, with the screenplay adapted by Stanley Mann and John Kohn. Wyler turned down The Sound of Music to direct the film. Most of the film was shot on soundstages in Los Angeles , though exterior sequences were filmed on location in London , Forest Row in East Sussex and Westerham in Kent .
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.
- (12K)
- Drama, Thriller
- William Wyler
- 1965-08-14
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.
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Old is a 2021 American thriller film written, directed, and produced by M. Night Shyamalan. It is based on the French-language Swiss graphic novel Sandcastle by Pierre Oscar Lévy [fr] and Frederik Peeters.
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Brief Synopsis. An English teacher arrives on a sleepy Greek island to take up a vacant teaching post. The last man to hold the post committed suicide under mysterious circumstances. Slowly but surely, he is drawn into a bizarre game engineered by a reclusive local magician.
