A Canterbury Tale
6.9(130) 1944-08-21 125 minMysteryWarDrama
Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.
DirectorEmeric Pressburger
DirectorMichael Powell
WriterEmeric Pressburger
WriterMichael Powell
ProducerEmeric Pressburger
ProducerMichael Powell
Original Music ComposerAllan Gray
Cast & characters
Eric Portman
as Thomas Colpeper, JP
Sheila Sim
as Alison Smith
Dennis Price
as Peter Gibbs
John Sweet
as Bob Johnson
Charles Hawtrey
as Thomas Duckett
Esmond Knight
as Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot
Hay Petrie
as Woodcock
George Merritt
as Ned Horton
Edward Rigby
as Jim Horton
Freda Jackson
as Prudence Honeywood
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Betty Jardine
as Fee Baker
Eliot Makeham
as Organist
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Parry Jones Jr.
as Arthur
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Beresford Egan
as P. C. Ovenden
Esma Cannon
as Agnes
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Anthony Holles
as Sergt. Bassett
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Maude Lambert
as Miss Grainger
Wallace Bosco
as A. R. P. Worker
Charles Paton
as Ernie Brooks
Jane Millican
as Susanna Foster
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Michael Golden
as Sergt. Smale
John Slater
as Sergt. Len
Graham Moffatt
as Sergt. Stuffy
Judith Furse
as Dorothy Bird
