- HD 1080
- Runtime: 119m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
- Director: William Wyler
- Stars: Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar, Mona Washbourne, Maurice Dallimore, Edina Ronay
- keywords: kidnapping, butterfly, confinement
- Production_studio: Collector Company, Columbia Pictures
- Slogan: Almost a love story.
- The The Collector is featured in the top rankings of 1965
- #2 in Top Thriller Movies of 1965
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.