This compelling drama by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (A Matter of Life and Death, The Red Shoes) is now acknowledged as one of their finest films. Their re-working of Chaucer's epic fourteenth century tale, largely set in wartime Kent, centres on American army Sergeant John Smith, British Soldier Dennis Price and Landgirl Shiela Sim who, before making a modern-day pilgrimage to Canterbury, solve the bizarre mystery of a man who pours glue over the hair of village girls at night.
Directed by
Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger.
Written by
Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger.
Starring
Eric Portman (Thomas Colpeper, JP); Sheila Sim (Alison Smith); Dennis Price (Peter Gibbs); Sergeant John Sweet (Bob Johnson (as Sergt. John Sweet, U.S. Army)); Esmond Knight (Narrator (non-US versions) / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot); Charles Hawtrey (Thomas Duckett); Hay Petrie (Woodcock); George Merritt (Ned Horton); Edward Rigby (Jim Horton); Freda Jackson (Prudence Honeywood); Betty Jardine (Fee Baker); Eliot Makeham (Organist); Harvey Golden (Sergt. Roczinsky); Leonard Smith (Leslie); James Tamsitt (Terry). Please contact SFC to add other cast members and characters.
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