Word: collector
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COLLECTOR. Director William Wyler's grisly, gripping thriller, adapted from the bestseller, about a lunatic butterfly fancier (Terence Stamp) who collects a lovely live girl (Samantha Eggar) and locks her in a dungeon...
...programmed and equipped to send to Earth a continuous stream of reports on 39 scientific and 90 engineering measurements. Crowded into the spacecraft were a new type of helium gas magnetometer to study magnetic fields, an ionization chamber and Geiger counter to measure galactic cosmic rays, a collector cup to measure the solar wind's barrage of protons, a cosmic-ray telescope and cosmic-dust collector -plus the all-important TV camera. "I don't think you could improve the payload," said one of the project scientists. "It's a damn near perfect mix of experiments...
...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...
...bathroom where Miranda, lashed and gagged, has made the tub overflow. Later, she attacks her jailer with a shovel one dismal English night, a bid for freedom that ends as a muddy, bloody wrestling match. Though Author Fowles's harrowing final chapters are only capsuled on film, The Collector, even with its intelligence and insight curtailed, still pays off handsomely as a shocker sure to quicken the pulse of any anxious working girl who has to walk home unescorted...