The Wicker Man ( was RE: [thechat] the new Star Wars :-))

Martin martin at members.evolt.org
Mon May 20 03:44:00 CDT 2002


On Monday, May 20, 2002, at 09:29  am, Norman Beresford wrote:

> The great shame about the Wicker Man is that it's just a shadow of what
> it
> was supposed to be.  We only get to see a heavily butchered version,
> popular
> film lore has the head of Lion studio's ordering the off cuts (which
> apparantly made the film even darker) to be burnt.  The US got a longer
> version, but neither is apparantly what it could have been.

Some of them are still hanging about - did you see the documentary that
was on the back end of last year?

It may or may not have been this one:
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0307667
but it certainly had scenes which weren't in the distributed version.

Cheers
Martin
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