On this day in movie history - The Wicker Man (1973):

The Wicker Man

directed by Robin Hardy,

written by Anthony Shaffer,

based on the novel Ritual by David Pinner,

was released in the United Kingdom on December 6, 1973.
Music by Paul Giovanni.

Cast:

Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Britt Ekland, Ingrid Pitt, Lindsay Kemp, Russell Waters, Aubrey Morris, Irene Sunters, Walter Carr, Ian Campbell, Leslie Blackater, Roy Boyd, Peter Brewis, Barbara Rafferty, Juliet Cadzow, Ross Campbell, Penny Cluer, Michael John Cole, Kevin Collins, Gerry Cowper, Ian Cutler, Donald Eccles, Myra Forsyth, John Hallam, Alison Hughes, Charles Kearney, Fiona Kennedy, John McGregor, Jimmy MacKenzie, Lesley Mackie, Jennifer Martin, Bernard Murray, Helen Norman, Lorraine Peters, Tony Roper, John Sharp, Elizabeth Sinclair, Andrew Tompkins, Ian Wilson, Richard Wren, John Young, S. Newton Anderson, Pauline Chamberlain, Mabel Etherington, Paul Giovanni, Robin Hardy, Tina Hart, Aileen Lewis, George Oliver, Ian Selby, Fred Wood.

Born on this day – Ingrid Pitt:

Ingrid Pitt

Actress

Writer

Holocaust survivor

November 21, 1937 – November 23, 2010

Credits:

Books:

Annul Domini: The Jesus Factor (2012); Bertie the Bus (1981); Cuckoo Run (1980); Dracula Who...? (2012); Eva's Spell (1985); Katarina (1986); Life's a Scream: The Autobiography of Ingrid Pitt / aka Darkness Before Dawn (1999 / 2004); The Ingrid Pitt Bedside Companion for Ghosthunters (1999); The Ingrid Pitt Bedside Companion for Vampire Lovers (1998); The Ingrid Pitt Book of Murder, Torture and Depravity (2000); The Perons (1984).

Movies and television:

100 Years of Horror (1996); 40 Years of Hammer (1997); A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966); Artemis 81 (1981); Barreiros 66 (1966); BBC2 Playhouse (1981); Beyond the Rave (2008); Bones (1984); Bride of Monster Mania (2000); British Film Forever (2007); Bulman (1987); Burnt Offering: The Cult of the Wicker Man (2001); Cast & Crew (2005); Chastity Bites (2013); Chimes at Midnight (1965); Cinema mil (2005); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2014); Countess Dracula (1971); Crumpet! A Very British Sex Symbol (2005); Doctor Who (1972–1984); Doctor Who: The Lost Stories (2010); Doctor Zhivago (1965); Dominator (2003); Drácula en la Hammer (2003); Dundee and the Culhane (1967); Ex-S (1998); Fanex Files: Hammer Films (2008); Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror (1994); Frankenpimp's Revenge: The Romeo and Juliet Massacre (2020); Green Fingers (2000); Hammer Horror: Vampire Terrortory (2007); Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood! (1987); Hanna's War (1988); Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest (2011); Interview mit Produzent Euan Lloyd und Ingrid Pitt (2010); Ironside (1967); Jason King (1972); Joe D'Amato at Eurofest (2007); Les vamps fantastiques (2003); London by Night (2009); Los duendes de Andalucía (1966); Martina Cole's Lady Killers (2008); Midnight Madness: The History of Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy Films (2010); Minotaur (2006); Mondo Rosso (1995); Monsters & Maniacs (1988); Movie Memories (1981); Myths of Mankind (2000–2008); New Faces (1974); Nobody Ordered Love (1972); Octopussy (1983); On Location: Where Eagles Dare (1968); Once Upon a Time in Europe (2001); Robin Hardy on 'The Wicker Man' (2013); Saucy 70's Volume 2 (2010); Sea of Dust (2008); Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (2003); Ski-Boy (1974); Smiley's People (1982); Sound of Horror (1966); The Adventurer (1973); The Asylum (2000); The Comedy of Errors (1983); The Eamonn Andrews Show (1968); The Final Option / aka Who Dares Wins (1982); The Flesh and the Fury: X-posing Twins of Evil (2012); The House (1984); The House That Dripped Blood / Segment: The Cloak (1971); The Last of the Gentleman Producers (2004); The Merv Griffin Show (1969); The Mind of David Berglas (1986); The Omegans (1968); The Perfect Scary Movie (2005); The Return of Count Yorga (1971); The Saint (1963); The Vampire Lovers (1970); The Wicker Man (1973); The Wicker Man Enigma (2001); The World of Hammer (1994); The Zoo Gang (1974); Thriller (1975); Tiempo y hora (1966); Un beso en el puerto (1966); Underworld (1985); Urban Gothic (2000); Where Eagles Dare (1968); Wild Geese II (1985).

Recommended reading - Darkness Before Dawn (2004)

Darkness Before Dawn

By Ingrid Pitt.

Paperback.
Published 2004.
Published by Midnight Marquee Press.
ISBN 13: 9781887664547
ISBN 10: 1887664548
ASIN: 1887664548

Description:

At the age of five, Ingrid Pitt found herself in a concentration camp. Ingrid and her mother escaped from the guards while on a forced march and presented themselves to the partisans, unsure if they would kill them. They spent the rest of the war in the forests. Ingrid fell in love for the first time and watched in despair as British bombers flew overhead. She still cannot see the vapor trials of planes without being transported back to her childhood vigil. After the war Ingrid came to London, where she developed a career as a Hammer House of Horror movie star, but, as she proudly says, `I was always the biter, never the bitten!' She also acted in mainstream films, such as WHERE EAGLES DARE. She had a child by her first marriage and a grand passion which lead to her marrying a racing driver. They lived in Argentina for a while and were good friends of President Peron and Isabelits Peron. Ingrid even spent an evening with the embalmed body of Eva Peron. Written with great passion and warmth, this is a rare childhood memoir and the story of Hammer`s most glamorous actress. Above all, this is a story of a survivor.