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A Canterbury Tale (1944)
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21 January 1949 (USA)
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Four modern pilgrims in a story of today - yet away from war.
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A 'Land Girl', an American GI, and a British soldier find themselves together in a small Kent town on the road to Canterbury...
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | 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 |
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124 min | USA:95 min
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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By 2004, the shop window overlooking the street from which John Sweet watches the parade in the film's final scene (adjacent to the Cathedral) belonged to a Starbuck's.
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Sergt. Roczinsky:
Hey, let's have some tea first, huh?
Bob Johnson: That stuff?
Sergt. Roczinsky: Sure; it's a habit, like marijuana.
Bob Johnson: I'll take marijuana.
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Bob Johnson: That stuff?
Sergt. Roczinsky: Sure; it's a habit, like marijuana.
Bob Johnson: I'll take marijuana.
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Featured in A Canterbury Trail (2006) (V)
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After a dozen viewings or so I still rate this as one of my Top 20 favourites, the passing of time doesn't seem to lessen its brilliance, if anything it improves with age. The Carlton budget DVD out at the moment makes the black and white photography gleam even more now, so I wonder why the BBC have always shown such an inferior copy.
ACT is a pleasant inconsequential masterpiece, with no heavy points to labour, no axes to grind and for wartime not too many flags to wave. But it leaves you wishing that Olde England could've been better preserved from the elected savages in charge of us since, and that perhaps it wasn't so surprising that people were ready to defend such a country and its lifestyles to the death. The only thing Chaucer inspired in me in all of his tales was the desire to reach the end of the journey.
The story? Mysterious fetishist keeps pouring glue onto unsuspecting girls heads at night - 3 intrepid souls determine to find and unmask the weirdo, but vacillate when their moment comes. The four main characters weave in and out of the tale, moving it forward gently to the rather grand climax. But what about the Glueman himself - did he go back home to his reprehensible pastime or did he meet a sticky end? Did Bob get his marijuana? Did they manage to get the moths out of Allison's caravan? Did Peter ever stop playing on his organ?
Refreshing: 1/ A platonic relationship between three handsome men and one beautiful woman. 2/ The most violent scene is where the troops burst out clapping the Sgt. who repaired the slide projector. 3/ A basic plot premise so flimsy and yet so captivating.
A most profitable way of spending two hours.