The Wicker Man Enigma (excerpt - Blue Underground Films, 2001)
Click here to play The Maypole Song from The Wicker Man
(See also Edgar Wright's touching tribute to Woodward)
Click here to play The Maypole Song from The Wicker Man
(See also Edgar Wright's touching tribute to Woodward)
Film Studies For Free was very sad to hear of the death of Edward Woodward. This versatile, talented, and extremely modest actor will be especially remembered in the film world for his brilliant performance as uptight Sergeant Neil Howie, tempted and tormented by Willow/Britt Ekland, in probably the most beguiling, troubling, and certainly one of the most popular, British cult films of all time (in FSFF's HO) The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973).
Below are some scholarly Wicker Man links in honour, and fond memory, of Woodward's performance in this and other roles:
- David Bartholomew, 'The Wicker Man', Cinefantastique, Volume 6, Number 3, 1977
- Edmund P. Cueva, '[Review of The Quest for the Wicker Man], Scope, Issue 10, February 2008
- B Franks, 'Constructing "The Wicker Man" Chapter 3. In Murray, J. and Stevenson, L. and Harper, S. and Franks, B. (Eds) Constructing "The Wicker Man": Film and Cultural Studies perspectives, Chapter 3, pages pp. 63-78. Glasgow: University of Glasgow, Crichton Publications (2005)
- Peter Hutchings, 'Uncanny Landscapes in British Film and Television', Visual Culture in. Britain vol. 5. No. 2, 2004
- Steve Phillips, 'The Various Versions of The Wicker Man', 2002
- Donato Totaro, 'Constructing the Wicker Man', Offscreen Journal, Volume 10, Issue 6 (June 30, 2006)
- Olga Wojtas, 'A burning passion that's close to worship', THES, July 11, 2003
- Melanie Jane Wright, 'The Wicker Man', Religion and film: an introduction (London: I.B.Tauris, 2007) [Google Books preview - embedded below]
- The Wicker Man at Screenonline
- And... on YouTube, one of the most remarkable scenes in Woodward's career: The ending of The Wicker Man
