The Collector

William Wyler returned to his roots with The Children’s Hour, met middling financial success, and did a Hitchcock. I mean that specifically regarding how as the studio system was in the final stages of collapse in the early 60s, Hitchcock had to go to England to make Frenzy. Though, it’s also to note that The Collector is somewhat Hitchcockian (make the redhead a blonde, and it’s one heavy step closer) to the point where Wyler consciously decided to not use Bernard Herrmann as composer becau...