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He began as a film booking clerk for Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors and, while working as an assistant film editor on documentaries in London, he began writing profiles of directors for the influential French movie magazine Cahiers du cinéma. He was a lifelong fan of westerns and wrote movie feature articles and interviews about the genre for various British magazines including the Monthly Film Bulletin and Time Out. He also continued to write for French magazines including Cahiers du cinéma, Positif and Midi Minuit Fantastique.
His first credit as a screenwriter was on the 1969 movie The Oblong Box, initially with Michael Reeves and, after Reeves' death, for director Gordon Hessler. Although Wicking was only credited for "additional dialogue", Hessler later verbally credited him as writing the entire filmed script.
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