I recall a bizarre film that precedes “#MeToo” by a few
decades. William Wyler’s British crime drama, “The Collector” (1965), for
Columbia.
Terrence Stamp played a bank clerk and butterfly (“OGAB”,
from Tiny Tim) collector to took to chloroforming women and keeping them just
to have them. But in Miranda (Samantha Eggar) he met his match, a woman who
would undo him to satisfy his fantasies.
Somehow, this old satire reminds me of the later “Boxing
Helena” even if it isn’t as brutal.
I recall seeing it at the old Buckingham Theater in Arlington
VA, the building is now a post office. It was a “neighborhood” in a time when
movies went from downtown to the neighborhoods. The center aisle went down the
middle of the auditorium, which was unusual at the time.
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