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A CANTERBURY TALE
(1944)
List of alternative names
- CANTERBURY TALES
- Copyright date
- Not available
- Production start date
- Not available
- Production end date
- Not available
Production countries
- Great Britain
- Notes
- The character of Bob's sweetheart played by Kim Hunter appears in US version of the film only in a brief extra scene.
Library Synopsis
Set in a Kent Village during World War II. Tells the bizarre story of three characters - a land girl, a British Sergeant and a US Sergeant - who arrive by the same train and become friends. They set about trying to unmask the mysterious 'glue man' who pours glue onto the hair of girls out late at night with servicemen.
Top five credits
- Directed by
- POWELL, Michael
- Directed by
- PRESSBURGER, Emeric
- Production Company
- Archers Film Productions
- [Production Company]
- Independent Producers
- Produced by
- POWELL, Michael
Top five cast
- Thomas Colpeper, J.P.
- PORTMAN, Eric
- Alison Smith
- SIM, Sheila
- Sergt. Peter Gibbs
- PRICE, Dennis
- Sergt. Bob Johnson
- SWEET (U.S. Army), Sergt. John
- Seven-Sisters soldier/village idiot
- KNIGHT, Esmond