The film has a haunting and eerie score which fits the film rather perfectly and the acting is superb to match the Direction and screenplay of the film. The film ends with him searching and finding a new less ambitious (Miranda acted sophisticated and better than Freddy which he resented) target. He convinces himself that it was her fault and that she got what she deserved because of her actions, not his. In the end when he finally comes back home and to Miranda's side, she dies before the doctor can make it to her. In the end he is hit over the head by Miranda with a shovel and must frantically run to the hospital and leaves Miranda unattended for over three days with no food or water. The problem is that there is nothing linking Freddy to the kidnapping and so there isn't much of a chance for poor Miranda who goes from trying to desperately escape to giving into Freddy's will. This specimen is Miranda (Samantha Eggar) who is kidnapped and taken back to the estate and locked away in a secret chamber behind a desk in an outside cellar. After winning a substantial amount of money from a Football Pool, the mentally disturbed collector Freddy Clegg makes all the arraignments in his newly acquired estate to hold his latest piece for his collection. The film is more or less focused on portraying one man's obsession with collecting and controlling the fate of both his butterfly collection and as of recently, a woman he has stalked for quite some time. "The Collector" has been remade recently with poor results, but this is the original by William Wyler and is a classic suspense film that is genuinely disturbing and frightening in a very fundamental way.