Edward Woodward
Sergeant Neil Howie
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The Wicker Man is a 2006 horror film written and directed by Neil LaBute and starring Nicolas Cage. [5] It is a remake and reimagining of the 1973 British film The Wicker Man, but also draws from its source material, David Pinner 's 1967 novel Ritual. The film concerns police officer Edward Malus, whose ex-fiancée Willow Woodward informs him ...
Dec 30, 2023 · The Wicker Man's roots lay in a little-known 1967 novel by British actor and author David Pinner called Ritual, whose film rights were purchased in 1971 by legendary veteran British horror film ...
Sergeant Howie (Edward Woodward) arrives on the small Scottish island of Summerisle to investigate the report of a missing child. A conservative Christian, the policeman observes the residents ...
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Summaries. A puritan police sergeant arrives in a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl, who the pagan locals claim never existed. On Sunday, April 29, 1973, Sergeant Neil Howie with the West Highland Constabulary flies solo to Summerisle off the coast of Scotland. He is there to follow up on a letter addressed specifically to him ...
Jun 21, 2023 · The Wicker Man is often compared to movies that emerged at around the same time, such as Piers Haggard’s The Blood on Satan’s Claw in 1971 and Michael Reeves’s Witchfinder General in 1968 ...
May 31, 2021 · Directed by Robin Hardy, The Wicker Man is a strange but essential B-movie artefact, one which has, over the past 20 years, been reclaimed as a masterpiece of British cinema and now has a home on ...
The Wicker Man was well reviewed on release, but only a modest commercial success. Lesley Mackie credits its endurance to the work of Christopher Lee and Robin Hardy. “It was a personal quest of ...
