Harold Pinter's The Collection (1976 TV) part 3 of 6

Laurence Olivier... Harry
Helen Mirren... Stella
Alan Bates... James
Malcolm McDowell... Bill


Director: Michael Apted

Writer: Harold Pinter (adapted his play for television)

Produced by Derek Granger and Laurence Olivier




Costume Design by Beatrice Dawson




Arthur Ganz on Pinter:

Pinter's plays require of thier audiences a sensitivity to these shifts in aesthetic key--some slight, some abrupt and daring--and especially to those moments of symbolic expansion when the characters lunge forward, thrusting their significance at the beholder. The feeling of dislocation that the audience experiences as the plays move back and forth between the realistic psychological mode and the symbolic one accounts, in considerable part, for the sense of menace that pervades Pinter's world. But it is the threat of meaning rather than the threat of violence that lies at the root of Pinter's menace.

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[clockworkgirl21]

Why are Malcolm's characters always associated with rape?

[conewells]

Helen Mirren looks so HOT in this play.

Ah, youth!

[dgat1804]

Am I the only one thinking that Alan BATES is absolutely brilliant as James ? God, is dangerously good...

[Stereolabdream]

Pure Pinter....brilliant. Every word makes you think about the multitude of meanings for that word; and every exchange of words is a shift in the balance of power between individuals.

[McMakisha]

Malcolms acting in this is brilliant.

[fukprc]

He looks like a faggot's tampon.

[Zatwa]

Youth is working for Malcolm McDowell as well, though the 70's duds really aren't.