
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Drama, Mystery, War, Comedy
Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury.
Director: Emeric Pressburger
Director: Michael Powell
Writers: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
The Cast

Eric Portman
Thomas Colpeper, JP

Sheila Sim
Alison Smith

Dennis Price
Peter Gibbs

John Sweet
Bob Johnson

Charles Hawtrey
Thomas Duckett

Esmond Knight
Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot

Hay Petrie
Woodcock

George Merritt
Ned Horton

Edward Rigby
Jim Horton

Freda Jackson
Prudence Honeywood

Betty Jardine
Fee Baker

Eliot Makeham
Organist

Parry Jones Jr.
Arthur

Beresford Egan
P. C. Ovenden

Esma Cannon
Agnes

Anthony Holles
Sergt. Bassett

Maude Lambert
Miss Grainger

Wallace Bosco
A. R. P. Worker

Charles Paton
Ernie Brooks

Jane Millican
Susanna Foster

Michael Golden
Sergt. Smale

John Slater
Sergt. Len

Graham Moffatt
Sergt. Stuffy

Judith Furse
Dorothy Bird

Barbara Waring
Polly Finn

Jean Shepeard
Gwladys Swinton

Margaret Scudamore
Mrs Colpeper

Joss Ambler
Police Inspector

H.F. Maltby
Mr. Portal

Eric Maturin
Geoffrey's Father

George Hall
Police Superintendent (uncredited)
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