A Canterbury Tale (1944)

Essential Viewing

UK

Feature Film
Writer/Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cinematographer: Erwin Hillier
Composer: Allan Gray
Cast: Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price, Sergt. John Sweet, U.S. Army

Powell and Pressburger’s ethereally beautiful film, quite possibly their greatest work, and one that no description could ever do justice to, is a rambling chronicle of the pilgrimage of three people to Canterbury, taking in such delights as feisty land girls, enigmatically sticky magistrates, and a sleeping, Moore Marriotless Graham Moffatt. Iain.Stott