The Wicker Man is a 1973 British horror film, directed by Robin Hardy and written by Anthony Shaffer.

Robin Hardy had no interest in the project, and it was never produced.

In 2006, an ill-received American remake was released, from which Robin Hardy and others involved with the original have disassociated themselves.

This film was also directed by Robin Hardy, and featured Christopher Lee in a cameo appearance.

Film director Robin Hardy and British Lion head Peter Snell became involved in the project.

Brainstorming with director Robin Hardy, the film was conceived as presenting the pagan elements objectively and accurately, accompanied by authentic music and a believable, contemporary setting.

Robin Hardy was not asked to direct the sequel, and never read the script, as he did not like the idea of Howie surviving the sacrifice, or the fact that the actors would have aged by twenty to thirty years between the two films.

Robin Hardy expressed concern about the remake.

It was directed by Robin Hardy, and featured an appearance by Christopher Lee.

Writer – director Robin Hardy has stated that the ambiguity was intentional, but that fans of The Wicker Man will immediately recognise Lee's character as Lord Summerisle.

Elizabeth R also starred many well-known television actors, including Malcolm McFee, Michael Williams, Margaretta Scott, John Woodvine, James Laurenson, Angela Thorne, Brian Wilde, Robin Ellis, Robert Hardy and Peter Egan.

His other major screenplays include the Hitchcock thriller Frenzy ( 1972 ) and the British cult thriller The Wicker Man ( 1973 ) with whose director, Robin Hardy, Shaffer had previously set up a television production company Hardy, Shaffer & Associates.

* The Wicker Man ( 1979 ) – co-written with Robin Hardy, based on Shaffer's screenplay

* The pagan island of " Summerisle " featured in the motion picture The Wicker Man ( filmed in 1973 & directed by Robin Hardy ) is sometimes mistakenly associated with this archipelago, but in actuality The Wicker Man was filmed around Newton Stewart in Dumfries and Galloway.

In 1973, a British horror film was produced titled The Wicker Man, directed by Robin Hardy.

Robin Hardy, who directed The Wicker Man, said, " He was one of the greatest actors of his generation, without a doubt, with a broad career on American television as well as on British film.

As of season 4, Jonny is somewhat stable, and in a support group for former-boy adventurers, along with Dr. Venture, the second Wonder Boy, RoBoy, and The Hale Brothers – the final three being parodies of Robin, Astro Boy, and The Hardy Boys respectively.

A show of stand-up to benefit the Free Fringe at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival, alongside comedians Jeremy Hardy, Michael Legge, Robin Ince, Mitch Benn, Isy Suttie, Bennett Arron, Andy Zaltzman and founder Peter Buckley Hill.

The band that toured through Holland at the end of 1977, was completed by bassplayer Dave Robin, while Unthank in the end was replaced by Max Hardy.

Some of these guest stars who appeared in The New Scooby-Doo Movies, were living celebrities who provided their own voices ( Don Knotts, Jerry Reed, Cass Elliot, Jonathan Winters, Sandy Duncan, Tim Conway, Dick Van Dyke, and Sonny & Cher, among others ); some had dead or retired celebrities whose voicing was done by imitators ( The Three Stooges and Laurel and Hardy ); many supporting roles were done by several celebrities who were famous elsewhere ( Ted Knight ( The Mary Tyler Moore Show ), Larry Storch ( F-Troop ), and Jamie Farr ( M * A * S * H )) and some even unknown by the time of production ( Jodie Foster and Vincent Van Patten ); and the rest were present or future Hanna-Barbera characters: the characters from Harlem Globetrotters, Josie and the Pussycats, Jeannie, and Speed Buggy all appeared on the show during or after their own shows ' original runs ; The Addams Family and Batman and Robin both appeared on the show a year before they were incorporated into Hanna-Barbera shows of their own, The Addams Family and Super Friends.

The opening titles on this release were edited to remove the images of The Addams Family, Batman & Robin, The Harlem Globetrotters, The Three Stooges, and Laurel & Hardy.

* " Bad Boy " ( 7 ) ( November 1959 ) — which Wilde wrote — a Top 50 hit in the US in 1960 and covered shortly after its release by Robin Luke, in 1964 by Françoise Hardy and later by Nirvana and Robert Gordon.

Robin Moore Hardy ( born 1955 ) is the author of more than twenty published books and several unpublished manuscripts.

" The character that Scott gave to Robin Hood in Ivanhoe helped shape the modern notion of this figure as a cheery noble outlaw.

He gave up a promising football career to marry his love Audrey ( Robin Wright Penn ) after they were involved in an auto accident.

On 12 October 1933, she gave birth to a daughter, Suzanne, later Mrs. Robin Farrington, who, decades later, would make Vivien Leigh a grandmother three times over.

Robin gave birth to a son, appointing Nicks as the child's godmother.

After Battle for the Cowl, Grayson adopted the mantle of Batman, and instead of having Tim ( who he viewed as an equal, rather than a protégé ) remain as Robin, he gave the role to Damian, who he felt needed the training that his father would have given him.

British historian Robin O ' Neil once gave an estimate of about 800, 000 ( based on his investigations at the site ).

Among the songs he began performing as an occasional guest singer with a local band, the Bluenotes, in 1958 were " Louie Louie ", which he had heard on Berry's original single, and Bobby Day's " Rockin ' Robin ", which gave him his stage name.

After a string of a dozen hit records, by November 1963 Burke had agreed to be crowned the " King of Rock ' n ' Soul " in a ceremony at the Royal Theatre in Baltimore by local deejay Fred Robinson, known professionally as " Rockin ' Robin ", who also gave him a cape and crown that he always wore on stage.

It gave him a " Robin Hood " image and he expropriated large estates from landowners and distributed the land among the peasants.

After main striker Robin van Persie suffered an injury during a match with his club Arsenal, Van Marwijk gave Van Nistelrooy a chance to reclaim his position as the main striker of the Netherlands ' national team.

She garnered the greatest acclaim of her career for her role in the religious drama, The Rapture ( 1991 ), with critic Robin Wood applauding that she " gave one of the greatest performances in the history of the Hollywood cinema.

They are comparable to the English legend of Robin Hood and his merry men, who stole from the rich ( which in the case of the hajduci happened to be also foreign occupants ) and gave to the poor, while defying unjust laws and authority.

A first album for the RSO label ( her third in all ), Rising Sun, produced by Steve Cropper, produced no hit singles, but her next album, Love Me, produced by Freddie Perren, gave her two top-20 hits, " Love Me " ( written by Barry and Robin Gibb ), and a Barbara Lewis cover, " Hello Stranger.

The earliest medieval Robin Hood stories gave him no female companion.

Robin Clifford of Reeling Reviews gave the film 4 out of 5 stars, while Brazilian reviewer Pablo Villaça of Cinema em Cena ( Cinema Scene ) gave the film three stars out of five.

Granted superspeed by a drug Dava gave him, and unused to its effects, Robin unwittingly uses lethal force, killing Shiva in battle.

Thorndon gave its name to the title of Sir Robin Cooke, Lord Cooke of Thorndon, although until his death on 30 August 2006 he lived in Karori.

" Pitchfork gave the reissue a perfect 10 / 10, hailing it as the " best new reissue ," while Sputnikmusic's Robin Smith rated the album " classic " with a perfect 5. 0.

Pinafore, Major-General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance ( a role that he gave up in 1969 ), Bunthorne in Patience, the Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe, King Gama in Princess Ida, Ko-Ko in The Mikado, Robin Oakapple / Sir Ruthven in Ruddigore, Jack Point in The Yeomen of the Guard, the Duke of Plaza-Toro in The Gondoliers, and John Wellington Wells in The Sorcerer ( beginning with the 1971 revival ).

Top-seed Robin Söderling gave Marcos a walkover into the final.

This, combined with the public humiliation he dealt out to the daimyo, resulted in the popular legend that he gave the money to the poor, turning the petty crook into a posthumous folk hero similar to Robin Hood.

Sanctuary Records gave Robin Brunson access to its large back catalogue of works, resulting in an eclectic mix of hip hop, rock and reggae from artists as diverse as Grandmaster Flash, The Kinks and the Harry J Allstars.

Similar to the legend of Robin Hood, who " robbed from the rich and gave to the poor ", the law " recaptured " property tax revenue from property-wealthy school districts and distributed those in property-poor districts, in an effort to equalize the financing of all districts throughout Texas.