As reported last week, Studiocanal and director Robin Hardy have launched a world-wide public appeal to locate original film materials relating to legendary horror classic ‘The Wicker Man’ that went missing in 1973. The search is well and truly underway but they still need your help!
The now widely lauded film was initially released as second feature of a double bill with Don’t Look Now. The version exhibited to audiences was significantly shorter than Robin Hardy's original vision. In what has now become an apocryphal episode in British film history, the negatives disappeared from storage at Shepperton Studios, were then allegedly used as landfill in the construction of the nearby M4 motorway, and are considered lost forever.
A special Facebook page has been created to serve as a forum for the search to continue; click on the link above.
