I don’t remember seeing it since this late 1970s showing.
It was a school night and I remember my mum saying “don’t tell anyone we let you stay up late to watch it.” It starred Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar and made a strong enough impression on me to virtually lift the plot for my mock English O-Level. I first came to this via the 1965 film adaptation I remember watching on a Monday night BBC1 9.30 film slot.
At the same time I mentioned I should get round to re-reading his debut “The Collector” to see how it holds up. Nevertheless, it ended up at #8 in my Best Books of 2020 list. It was a book I’d remembered with great affection but wondered on this re-reading whether “it does occasionally seem a little clever for its own good” and pondered if this might be one of the reasons why Fowles’ reputation has faded somewhat in the twenty-first century. Back in 2020 I re-read John Fowles’ most famous work “ The French Lieutenant’s Woman” (1969).
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