Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The wicker man [videorecording] / British Lion Film Corporation ; producer, Peter Snell ; writer, Anthony Shaffer ; director, Robin Hardy.

Edition:

[Theatrical version] ; widescreen version.

Publisher, Date:

[Troy, MI] : Anchor Bay Entertainment, [2001], c1973.

Description:

1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

When a young girl mysteriously disappears, Police Sergeant Howie travels to a remote Scottish island to investigate. But this pastoral community, led by the strange Lord Summerisle, is not what it seems as the devout Christian detective soon uncovers a secret society of wanton lust and pagan blasphemy. Can Howie now stop the cult's ultimate sacrificebefore he himself comes face-to-face with the horror of the Wicker Man?

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: R.

Subjects:

Human sacrifice -- Scotland -- Drama.

Rites and ceremonies -- Scotland -- Drama.

Paganism -- Scotland -- Drama.

Horror films.

Closed captioning.

Other Author:

Snell, Peter, 1941-

Shaffer, Anthony, 1926-2001.

Hardy, Robin.

Lee, Christopher, 1922-2015

Woodward, Edward, 1930-2009.

Ekland, Britt, 1942-

Waxman, Harry, 1912-1984.

Boyd-Perkins, Eric.

Giovanni, Paul.

British Lion Films.

Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc.

Other Title:

Anthony Shaffer's The wicker man.

Notes:

Information from pre-release promotional materials; release date: Aug. 21, 2001.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1973.

Special features: Interviews with Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Ingrid Pitt, Robin Hardy, Peter Snell, Anthony Shaffer, ERic Boyd-Perkins, Seamus Flannery, Jake Wright, John Simon and Roger Corman; theatrical trailer; TV spot; radio spots; talent bios.

Director of photography, Harry Waxman ; editor, Eric Boyd-Perkins ; music composed by Paul Giovanni.

Christopher Lee, Edward Woodward, Britt Ekland.

Also issued on VHS.

DVD.

Closed-captioned.

ISBN:

9786312593485

6306455957

Publisher Number:

DV11422

System Availability:

3

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

3

Control Number:

131867

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Wicker m

Medium:

[videorecording]