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Programme Information

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.

Keywords:

Drama, Mystery, War, History, Movie, Film, Movies, Films

Additional Information:

(Black and white) (1944) (4 Star)

Cast:

Eric Portman	.... Thomas Colpeper
Sheila Sim	.... Alison Smith
Dennis Price	.... Peter Gibbs
Sergeant John Sweet	.... Bob Johnson
Esmond Knight	.... Narrator
Charles Hawtrey	.... Thomas Duckett

Supporting Cast:

Hay Petrie	.... Woodcock
George Merritt	.... Ned Horton
Edward Rigby	.... Jim Horton
Freda Jackson	.... Prudence Honeywood
Betty Jardine	.... Fee Baker
Eliot Makeham	.... Organist
Harvey Golden	.... Sgt. Roczinsky
Leonard Smith	.... Leslie
James Tamsitt	.... Terry Holmes

Directors:

Michael Powell
Emeric Pressburger

Writers:

Michael Powell
Emeric Pressburger