I finally got around to watching this, with Patrick, yesterday. Thanks, Hannah, for gifting it.
It’s beautifully filmed, in black and white (like the other superb and unusual Brownlow & Mollo film It Happened Here).
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NOTES:
Winstanley, from his pamphlet:
“Was the earth made to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease…?”
As usual, with a film like this, when you start looking into it, you uncover other interesting stuff. Also, I found this blog, The Celluloid Wicker Man, which is fascinating.
It’s worth noting that for some folk, there has actually been a second ECW, much more recently, with events such as The Battle of The Beanfield and The Battle of Orgreave echoing how society or the state brutally suppresses dissent.