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A Canterbury Tale
Directed by
Emeric Pressburger
,
Michael Powell
Not Rated
1944
2h 4m
Drama
,
War
,
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7.3
94%
80%
6.9
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Three World War Two era pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small UK 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 / Vocals
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 / Third Assistant Director
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
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A Canterbury Tale Ratings & Reviews
Dare Daniel
Daniel Barnes
A star-studless small-town mystery that still has all the magic, splendor and heart you expect from Powell and Pressburger.
TheArtsStl
Sarah Boslaugh
One of the stranger yet remarkably powerful [Powell & Pressburger films] is their 1944 A Canterbury Tale, which wasn't much of a hit with either critics or the public upon first release but has since been recognized as a classic of British cinema.
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.
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Is this the strangest film produced by (and about) an Allied nation during WWII?
TV Guide
A mighty strange movie, one that updates Chaucer's story to wartime Britain.
Variety
Variety Staff
Sincerity and simplicity shine through every foot of this oversized modern version of the Chaucer epic tale. Here is rare beauty.
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.
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.
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.
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