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A Canterbury Tale

on BBC Two England

Written, produced and directed by MICHAEL POWELL and EMERIC PRESSBURGER. Continuing the season of distinguished films celebrating one of the most successful partnerships in British cinema. starring Eric Portman
Sheila Sim , Dennis Price
The Powell-Pressburger team excelled in this unique combination of a tale of detection and of English traditions reaffirmed. Three wartime pilgrims on their way to Canterbury converge on the quiet Kentish village of Chillingboume. There they find that girls are afraid to go out at night because of attacks by the mysterious ' glueman '. But they soon discover that the ' glueman' is no ordinary molester or crank ...

Contributors

Directed By:
Michael Powell
Unknown:
Eric Portman
Unknown:
Sheila Sim
Thomas Colpeper, JP:
Eric Portman
Alison Smith:
Sheila Sim
Bob Johnson:
Sgt John Sweet Us Army
Peter Gibbs:
Dennis Price
Narrator:
Esmond Knight
Seven-Sisters soldier:
Esmond Knight
Village idiot:
Esmond Knight
Thomas Duckett:
Charles Hawtrey
Woodcock:
Hay Petrie
Ned Horton:
George Merritt
Jim Horton:
Edward Rigby
Prudence Honeywood:
Freda Jackson
Fee Baker:
Betty Jardine
Organist:
Eliot Makeham
Sgt Roczinsky:
Harvey Golden
Leslie:
Leonard Smith
Terry:
James Tamsitt
David:
David Todd

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