Cinematography:
Erwin HillierComposer:
Allan GrayCast:
Eric Portman, Dennis Price, Esmond Knight, Charles Hawtrey, Hay Petrie, George Merritt, Charles Paton, Graham Moffatt, Jack May, Kim Hunter, Raymond Massey (more)VOD (2)
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Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s beloved classic A Canterbury Tale is a profoundly personal journey to Powell’s bucolic birthplace of Kent, England. Set amid the tumult of the Second World War, yet with a rhythm as delicate as a lullaby, the film follows three modern-day incarnations of Chaucer’s pilgrims - a melancholy “landgirl”, a plainspoken American GI, and a resourceful British sergeant - who are waylaid in the English countryside en route to the mythical town and forced to solve a bizarre village crime. Building to a majestic climax that ranks as one of the filmmaking duo’s finest achievements, the dazzling A Canterbury Tale has acquired a following of devotees passionate enough to qualify as pilgrims themselves. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Eric Portman
UK
Best movies:
Freud (1962)
The Bedford Incident (1965)
The Magic Box (1951)
Dennis Price
UK
Best movies:
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
The V.I.P.s (1963)
Ten Little Indians (1965)
Esmond Knight
UK
Best movies:
The Red Shoes (1948)
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
Hamlet (1948)
Charles Hawtrey
UK
Best movies:
The Woman Alone (1936)
Passport to Pimlico (1949)
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Hay Petrie
UK
Best movies:
The Red Shoes (1948)
Great Expectations (1946)
The Fallen Idol (1948)
George Merritt
UK
Best movies:
Young and Innocent (1937)
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
The Ghost Train (1941)
Charles Paton
UK
Best movies:
Night and the City (1950)
Blackmail (1929)
Piccadilly (1929)
Graham Moffatt
UK
Best movies:
I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Jack May
UK
Best movies:
The Last Place on Earth (1985) (series)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
Brief Encounter (1945)
Kim Hunter
USA
Best movies:
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Un tramway nommé Désir (1951)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Raymond Massey
Canada
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
East of Eden (1955)
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
George Hall
Canada
Best movies:
Mrs. Brown (1997)
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Balto II: Wolf Quest (2002)
Sheila Sim
UK
Best movies:
The Magic Box (1951)
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)
Esma Cannon
Australia
Best movies:
Trouble in Store (1953)
Contraband (1940)
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Judith Furse
UK
Best movies:
The Browning Version (1951)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
Black Narcissus (1947)
Margaret Scudamore
UK
Best movies:
Black Narcissus (1947)
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Eliot Makeham
UK
Best movies:
Night and the City (1950)
The Citadel (1938)
A Christmas Carol (1951)
Freda Jackson
UK
Best movies:
Clash of the Titans (1981)
Great Expectations (1946)
A Tale of Two Cities (1958)
Gerik Schjelderup
German Empire
Best movies:
The Great Manhunt (1950)
Our Man in Havana (1959)
The Assassination Bureau (1969)
Wallace Bosco
UK
Best movies:
Brief Encounter (1945)
Richard III (1955)
Repulsion (1965)