Word: samantha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COLLECTOR. Director William Wyler's grisly, gripping thriller adapted from the bestseller by John Fowles-about a lunatic butterfly fancier (Terence Stamp) who collects a lovely, live girl (Samantha Eggar) and locks her in a dungeon...
...COLLECTOR. A psychotic clerk (Terence Stamp) turns from collecting butterflies to capture a vivacious young art student (Samantha Eggar) in Director William Wyler's gripping, if somewhat glamorized thriller...
...Collector is a good grisly thriller that never rises to the challenge of becoming something more. Contrived to leave viewers feeling scared silly rather than profoundly shaken, this tournament of terror spells instant stardom for two relatively uncelebrated English performers, Samantha Eggar and Terence Stamp, although Stamp is seriously miscast. From a taut beginning to a breath-stopping climax, the drama seizes attention, yet misses nearly all the depth and subtlety of the small sinister bestseller on which it is based...
Double Dip. Samantha's distress kept pace with her role; her shadows darkened as the heroine wasted away. Verisimilitude was everything. Wyler even insisted that the two nude scenes be played entirely in the buff, and one of them, a bathtub scene, was shot and reshot for five hours. For conventraised Samantha, it was this very embarrassment that gave veracity to her fumbling, desperate efforts to seduce her captor-which was precisely the effect Wyler wanted. "Looking back," Samantha admits, "I must say it made sense; it was valid...
Three weeks ago at the Cannes festival, The Collector made more than that. The jury decided to dip into one film for both Best Actor and Best Actress, awarded them to Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar. On the private-showing circuit in Hollywood, Samantha is being touted as having a rare combination of acting talent and physical beauty, and Wyler's wiles may have set up two more Oscar nominations. If so, that's perfectly fine by Willie Wyler. "I'm particularly pleased for this award for the two kids," he said serenely. "I prefer that...