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A Canterbury Tale
Directed by
Michael Powell
and
Emeric Pressburger
1945
2h 4m
Not Rated
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7.3
93%
79%
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Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.
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Cast of A Canterbury Tale
Eric Portman
Thomas Colpeper, JP
Sheila Sim
Alison Smith
Dennis Price
Peter Gibbs
John Sweet
Bob Johnson
Charles Hawtrey
Thomas Duckett
Esmond Knight
Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot
Hay Petrie
Woodcock
George Merritt
Ned Horton
Edward Rigby
Jim Horton
Freda Jackson
Prudence Honeywood
Betty Jardine
Fee Baker
Eliot Makeham
Organist
Parry Jones Jr.
Arthur
Beresford Egan
P. C. Ovenden
Esma Cannon
Agnes
Anthony Holles
Sergt. Bassett
Maude Lambert
Miss Grainger
Wallace Bosco
A. R. P. Worker
Charles Paton
Ernie Brooks
Jane Millican
Susanna Foster
Michael Golden
Sergt. Smale
John Slater
Sergt. Len
Graham Moffatt
Sergt. Stuffy
Judith Furse
Dorothy Bird
Barbara Waring
Polly Finn
Jean Shepeard
Gwladys Swinton
Margaret Scudamore
Mrs Colpeper
Joss Ambler
Police Inspector
H.F. Maltby
Mr. Portal
Eric Maturin
Geoffrey's Father
A Canterbury Tale Reviews
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
A simple but wonderfully bizarre way to tell Chaucer's A Canterbury Tale in modern terms.
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
The movie is gorgeous and soulful, the product of two gentlemen already figuring out some amazing camera tricks early in their career and comfortable with telling an offbeat story in a unique way.
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Is this the strangest film produced by (and about) an Allied nation during WWII?
Variety
Variety Staff
Sincerity and simplicity shine through every foot of this oversized modern version of the Chaucer epic tale. Here is rare beauty.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Very nearly plotless, this 1944 film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger represents one of the few times the narrative cinema has approached the lyrical ideal.
World Socialist Web Site
David Walsh
Despite A Canterbury Tale's national-patriotic aims and its fantasy of a peaceful, rustic English countryside peopled by plain-spoken but astute farmers and craftsmen, the work retains a considerable impact.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
It's oddly soothing and exciting to just bask in the film's images and listen to its stories and ideas.
Movie Nation
Roger Moore
An adorably quaint snapshot...of the war in Britain and an English countryside perhaps properly spoiled by progress and by too many years of TV's "Escape to the Country."
TV Guide
A mighty strange movie, one that updates Chaucer's story to wartime Britain.
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