Film Finances and The Wicker Man (1973)

<p dir="ltr">This article explores the production history of the cult British horror<br>film The Wicker Man (1973), drawing upon sources held by the Film Finances<br>Archive. While most previous accounts of the making of The Wicker Man<br>have been based on contemporary press coverage and interviews with<br>surviving members of cast and crew, the Film Finances Archive includes a<br>range of primary source materials – including production correspondence,<br>scripts, budgets, schedules, progress reports and cost statements – which not<br>only provide evidence of the film’s problematic production but also challenge<br>some of the fan myths that have accumulated around the film. The article<br>concludes that some of the alleged ‘lost’ or ‘missing’ scenes of The Wicker<br>Man were in fact never completed during the chaotic shoot.