A Canterbury Tale (1944)

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Written by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

Running Time: 100 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1944

Rating: U Certificate

Filmed in Black and White

Three strangers - a GI, an English conscript and a London girl sent down to work on the land - meet on the road to Canterbury. There they are drawn into a local mystery: young women who stay out late with soldiers are attacked by a 'glueman' who pours glue on their hair.

Cast

Eric PortmanThomas Colpeper
Sheila SimAlison Smith
Dennis PricePeter Gibbs
Sergeant John SweetBob Johnson
Esmond KnightNarrator
Charles HawtreyThomas Duckett
Hay PetrieWoodcock
George MerrittNed Horton
Edward RigbyJim Horton
Freda JacksonPrudence Honeywood
Betty JardineFee Baker
Eliot MakehamOrganist
Harvey GoldenSgt. Roczinsky
Leonard SmithLeslie
James TamsittTerry Holmes

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