читать дальшеNatalie Wood turned down the role of Miranda Grey.

For the sequence in which Freddie drags Miranda through the rain, William Wyler had prop men throw buckets of water over Samantha Eggar without warning between takes.
Eggar later spoke of how Wyler succeeded in making her feel "defenseless," hence deepening her performance.

According to Terence Stamp, Wyler wouldn't let Samantha Eggar off the set during the day.
He also wouldn't allow her to eat with anyone else during the lunch break.
Stamp argues Wyler knew what he was doing, as the director whispered to him one day on set,
"I know this looks cruel, but we're going to get a great performance out of her."

This film was cited by notorious serial killer Bob Berdella as a key inspiration for his crimes.

Even though Samantha Eggar was unhappy with Stamp's cold treatment of her during filming,
she couldn't have known that he was simply following Wyler's instructions and staying in character.
Stamp later said, "All the guys had crushes on her, she was so beautiful...
I had a crush on her, too, and I was friendly with her. But when we started the movie,
Willy said, 'I don't want you to have anything to do with her.' He wanted me to withdraw any friendship.
He didn't want her to have anywhere to go or anyone to talk to, except her coach.
He didn't want her to be able to come to me in the evening and say, 'God, it's so awful.'"

According to Samantha Eggar, "The ending of The Collector, in fact, is almost illegal, because the Stamp character,
Freddie Clegg, gets away with murder, and you weren't allowed to do that in those days."
However, John Trevelyan, the censor, who had recently married a woman about half his age, nodded off during the screening,
and never saw the ending of the film. He woke up and signed off on it.
Had he been awake, we might have had a very different film, or people "might have been arrested".

The circumstances of Miranda's death in the film arguably paint Freddie in a better light than in the original novel.
In the film, Freddie is in the hospital for several days, and Miranda is already critically ill by the time he returns.
In the film, Freddie never goes to the hospital, and simply ignores Miranda's pleas that she's getting sick and needs a doctor.
Also in the film, while Freddie aborts his attempt to go to the doctor,
Miranda is already dead by the time he returns, suggesting that it would have made no difference even if he had brought one.
In the novel, Freddie has many opportunities over several days to go to the doctor, even after he knows for sure that Miranda is critically ill, and simply never does.

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