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Anthony Shaffer

October 2016

  • Miles Richardson as Andrew Wyke in Sleuth.

    Sleuth review – few thrills to be had in Shaffer's outdated mystery

    Anthony Shaffer’s meta-thriller is not so much an “ultimate game of cat-and-mouse” as an old mog prodding at its toy before settling down for a snooze

May 2012

  • Waiting on … but is there one more character to come in Detroit at London's National theatre?

    Mark Lawson's theatre studies
    Why a late entrance can recast a play

    Programmes can give a clue to game-changing last-minute appearances – which is why some writers have gone to great lengths to conceal crucial surprises, writes Mark Lawson

February 2004

  • Playwright's family fight off mistress's claim to share legacy

    The wives and daughters of the playwright Anthony Shaffer fought off an attempt by his mistress to claim a share of his multi-million pound estate yesterday.

April 2002

  • Video Releases

    The Wicker Man (1973, 15, Studio Canal-Warner, DVD/ Retail)
    Thirty years ago this cult fantasy-horror classic was butchered by the new bosses at British Lion and released in a double bill without a press show. What was a labour of love for director Robin Hardy, screenwriter Anthony Shaffer and stars Christopher Lee and Edward Woodward is now available on a two-disc DVD that includes the restored director's cut, the1973 release version, afascinating documentary on its chequered history and a running commentary by Lee, Woodward and Hardy. Woodward, who plays a virginal cop lured to a remote Scottish island for its May Day festivities, and Lee, the laird of a community of cheerful pagans, regard this flawed masterwork as the peak of their movie careers, and Lee never got a penny for it. The final sequence is among the most unforgettable in European cinema.

November 2001

  • Anthony Shaffer

  • Anthony Shaffer

April 2000

  • Andrew Gilchrist

    The Wicker Man

    Andrew Gilchrist

    Is that the 70s horror classic Rod Stewart tried to buy up and destroy so no one could see Britt Ekland, his then partner, dancing with her kit off?

January 1999

  • Three great horror movies were made in 1973: The Exorcist, Don't Look Now - and The Wicker Man. The who?

    One morning in 1973, Christopher Lee requested a pre-release showing of his latest film. 'What do you think of it?' asked Michael Deeley, British Lion's managing director. 'It's an extraordinary movie,' Lee enthused. He never forgot Deeley's reply. 'He just looked at me and said, 'I think it's one of the 10 worst films I've ever seen'.' Lee was gobsmacked.

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