A Canterbury Tale

Name: A Canterbury Tale
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Released: 1944-08-21T00:00:00.000Z
Rating: 6.94

About A Canterbury Tale

Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.

A Canterbury Tale (1944) is a mystery war film directed by Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell. Its themes are england, rural area, railroad, and wartime.

Eric Portman appears as Thomas Colpeper, JP, Sheila Sim as Alison Smith, Dennis Price as Peter Gibbs, and John Sweet as Bob Johnson. It runs 125 minutes and was released in August 1944.

The screenplay is by Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell. It streams on fuboTV in the United States.

Mrs. Miniver, The Imitation Game, and Schindler's List make useful companions to A Canterbury Tale, all filed under black and white and home front. TMDB voters put it at 6.9 out of 10 across 134 votes and it carries a NR rating.