 SPOILER: According to Samantha Eggar (qv), "The ending of The  Collector, in fact, is almost illegal, because the Stamp character,  Freddie Clegg, gets away with murder, and you werent allowed to do  that in those days." However, John Trevelyan (qv), 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".