A Canterbury Tale (1944)

Movie Details

Original Title A Canterbury Tale

Original Language EN

Status Released

Popularity 0.3

Cast

Eric Portman

Thomas Colpeper, JP

Popularity: 4.5

Sheila Sim

Alison Smith

Popularity: 0.3

Dennis Price

Peter Gibbs

Popularity: 0.8

John Sweet

Bob Johnson

Popularity: 0.1

Charles Hawtrey

Thomas Duckett

Popularity: 1.5

Esmond Knight

Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot

Popularity: 1.1

Hay Petrie

Woodcock

Popularity: 0.2

George Merritt

Ned Horton

Popularity: 1.9

Edward Rigby

Jim Horton

Popularity: 0.5

Freda Jackson

Prudence Honeywood

Popularity: 0.4

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Betty Jardine

Fee Baker

Popularity: 0.2

Eliot Makeham

Organist

Popularity: 1.5

Key Crew

Writer Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

Director Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

Editor John Seabourne Sr.

Producer Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell

Production

The Archers

J. Arthur Rank Organisation

Image Gallery

Backdrops

Keywords

england world war ii wartime rural area railroad canterbury home front

Reviews from TMDB

CinemaSerf 7/10

Mar 28, 2022

This is a curious film to describe. In the best traditions of Chaucer, from whom the title is borrowed - it is a bit of an English whimsy. Not whimsical, not in any light and fluffy sense, but a story that though rooted in characterisations has something more intangible about it. This tale centres a ... Read more