BRITT SCARY UP NORTH FOR ED.Byline: Stuart Maconie SO farewell then Edward Woodward, the great British character actor and memorable punchline to a playground joke about windiness in the bath. Of course, some will remember him for Callan, others for The Equalizer. But British film fans will forever know him as the decent, hapless, innocent police sergeant in The Wicker Man For other uses, see The Wicker Man (disambiguation). The Wicker Man was a large wicker statue of a human allegedly used by the ancient Druids for human sacrifice by burning it in effigy, according to Julius Caesar in his Commentarii de Bello Gallico ( . It is a genuinely brilliant performance. If, like me, you were 13 when you first saw it, the scene where he tries to resist the lures of the naked Britt Ekland Britt Ekland (born 6 October 1942) is a Swedish actress, long resident in the United Kingdom. She is fluent in English, French, German and her native Swedish and is most famous for her role as a Bond Girl in The Man with the Golden Gun. will stay with you forever, even if your reaction was 'silly sod'. And his general air of terrified ter·ri·fy tr.v. ter·ri·fied, ter·ri·fy·ing, ter·ri·fies 1. To fill with terror; make deeply afraid. See Synonyms at frighten. 2. To menace or threaten; intimidate. bewilderment at being abandoned among frightening natives in the far North with their own language, customs and cult beliefs is utterly convincing. Especially if you've ever spent a Friday night in Redcar. |
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