SOURCE: Milne, Tom. “The Elusive John Collier.” Sight and Sound 45, no. 2 (spring 1976): 104-8.

In the following essay, Milne explores Collier's writing and films based on his stories.

‘If thou be'st born to strange sights and if you don't mind picking your way through the untidy tropics of this, the globe, and this, the heart, in order to behold them, come with me into the highly coloured Bargain Basement Toy Bazaar of the Upper Congo. You shall return to England shortly.’

—John Collier, His Monkey Wife

After languishing in limbo since its appearance at the London Festival three years ago, James B. Harris' Some Call It Loving has just re-emerged as the other half of a London sexploitation double bill: a strange but perhaps not entirely inappropriate apotheosis for a film that assumes the persona of the Dream Factory to demonstrate the innocence of corruption as well as the...