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Dennis Price | Peter Gibbs | |
Eric Portman | Thomas Colpeper, JP | |
Esmond Knight | Narrator /Seven-Sisters Soldier/Village Idiot | |
George Merritt | Ned Horton | |
Charles Hawtrey | Thomas Duckett | |
Hay Petrie | Woodcock | |
Edward Rigby | Jim Horton | |
John Sweet | Bob Johnson | |
Sheila Sim | Alison Smith | |
Sergeant John Sweet | Bob Johnson | |
Freda Jackson | Prudence Honeywood | |
Betty Jardine | Fee Baker | |
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Eliot Makeham | Organist |
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Producer | Jock Laurence
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Writer | Michael Powell
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Cinematography | Erwin Hillier
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Musician | Allan Gray
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The Criterion Collection, A Continuing Series of Important Classic and Contemporary Films Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s beloved classic A Canterbury Tale is a profoundly personal journey to Powell’s bucolic birthplace of Kent, England. Set amidst the tumult of the Second World War yet with a rhythm as delicate as a lullaby, the film follows three modern-day incarnations of Chaucer’s pilgrims a melancholy "landgirl," a plainspoken American GI, and a resourceful British sergeant - who are waylaid in the English countryside en route to the mythical town and forced to solve a bizarre village crime. Building to a majestic climax that ranks as one of the filmmaking duo’s finest achievements, the dazzling A Canterbury Tale has acquired a following passionate enough to qualify as pilgrims themselves. |
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