A Canterbury Tale
Mystery
War
Drama
Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.
1944-08-21
en
Cast
Director
Emeric Pressburger
Director
Michael Powell
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
Eliot Makeham as Organist
Esma Cannon as Agnes
Wallace Bosco as A. R. P. Worker
Charles Paton as Ernie Brooks
Jane Millican as Susanna Foster
John Slater as Sergt. Len
Graham Moffatt as Sergt. Stuffy
Judith Furse as Dorothy Bird
Margaret Scudamore as Mrs Colpeper
Joss Ambler as Police Inspector
Eric Maturin as Geoffrey's Father
George Hall as Police Superintendent (uncredited)