The Wicker Man (1973)
The Wicker Man (1973)
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Edward Woodward
Sergeant Neil Howie
Christopher Lee
Lord Summerisle
Britt Ekland
Willow MacGreagor
Ingrid Pitt
Librarian
Diane Cilento
Miss Rose
Lindsay Kemp
Alder MacGreagor
Aubrey Morris
Old Gardener / Gravedigger
Russell Waters
Harbour Master (uncredited)
Irene Sunters
May Morrison
Roy Boyd
Broome
Ian Campbell
Oak
Walter Carr
School Master (uncredited)
John Hallam
McTaggert
Barbara Rafferty
Woman with Baby (uncredited)
Tony Roper
Postman (uncredited)
John Sharp
Doctor Ewan (uncredited)
Donald Eccles
T.H. Lennox
Robin Hardy
Minister (uncredited) / Director
Jennifer Martin
Myrtle Morrison
Richard Wren
Ash Buchanan
Fiona Kennedy
Holly
Lesley Mackie
Daisy
Myra Forsyth
Mrs Grimmond
Penny Cluer
Gillie (uncredited)
Peter Brewis
Musician (uncredited)
Leslie Blackater
Hairdresser (uncredited)
Juliet Cadzow
Villager (uncredited)
Helen Norman
Villager (uncredited)
Lorraine Peters
Girl on Grave (uncredited)
Ross Campbell
Communicant (uncredited)
Ian Wilson
Communicant (uncredited)
Alison Hughes
Fiancée to Howie (uncredited)
Charles Kearney
Butcher (uncredited)
John McGregor
Baker (uncredited)
Jimmy Mackenzie
Briar (uncredited)
John Young
Fishmonger
Kevin Collins
Old Fisherman (uncredited)
Elizabeth Sinclair
Villager (uncredited)
Muriel Greenslade
Old Woman in Library (uncredited)
Gerry Cowper
Rowan Morrison / (uncredited)
Andrew Tompkins
(uncredited)
Bernard Murray
(uncredited)
John MacGregor
(uncredited)
Annie Ross
Willow MacGreagor (voice) (uncredited)
George Oliver
Parishioner (uncredited)
Fred Wood
Parishioner (Singing Hymn In Church) (uncredited)
Jan Dorman
Hairstylist
Harry Waxman
Director of Photography
Sue Yelland
Costume Design
Peter Snell
Producer
Seamus Flannery
Art Direction
Paul Giovanni
Original Music Composer
Maggie Cartier
Casting
W.T. Partleton
Makeup Artist
Eric Boyd-Perkins
Editor
Anthony Shaffer
Screenplay
Media.
Details.
Release DateDecember 6, 1973
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 28m
Budget$810,000
Box Office$513,000
Filming LocationsScotland, United Kingdom
Genres
Wiki.
The Wicker Man is a 1973 British folk horror film directed by Robin Hardy and starring Edward Woodward, Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt and Christopher Lee. The screenplay is by Anthony Shaffer, inspired by David Pinner's 1967 novel Ritual, and Paul Giovanni composed the film score.The plot centres on the visit of a police officer, Sergeant Neil Howie, to the isolated Scottish island of Summerisle in search of a missing girl. Howie, a devout Christian, is appalled to find that the inhabitants of the island have abandoned Christianity and now practise a form of Celtic paganism.The Wicker Man is well regarded by critics. Film magazine Cinefantastique described it as "The Citizen Kane of horror movies", and in 2004, Total Film magazine named The Wicker Man the sixth-greatest British film of all time. It also won the 1978 Saturn Award for Best Horror Film. The final scene was number 45 on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments, and during the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, it was included as part of a sequence that celebrated British cinema. The film brought the wicker man into modern popular culture.In 1989, Shaffer wrote a script treatment for The Loathsome Lambton Worm, a direct sequel with fantasy elements. Hardy had no interest in the project, and it went unproduced. In 2006, a poorly received American remake starring Nicolas Cage was released, from which Hardy and others involved with the original have dissociated themselves. In 2011, a spiritual sequel written and directed by Hardy, The Wicker Tree, was released; it featured Lee in a cameo appearance. In 2013, the original U.S. theatrical version of The Wicker Man was digitally restored and released.