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Film details
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Featuring
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Directors
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Country
United Kingdom
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Year
1944
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Genre
War
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Alternative titles
- Canterbury Tales Working
Introduction
One of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s few box-office flops, this film was unsuccessfully recut and rereleased in the USA – though many now claim it to be a masterpiece. Its propaganda element centres on a land girl’s friendship with an American soldier.
Casting a non-actor lead (a real hero) is its biggest failing, although his lack of charisma is curiously harmonious with the film’s tempo and Chaucerian view of Britain.
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Thomas Colpeper, J.P.
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Alison Smith
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Sergt. Peter Gibbs
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Sergt. Bob Johnson
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narrator/Seven-Sisters soldier/village idiot
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Thomas Duckett
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Woodcock
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Ned Horton
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Jim Horton
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Prudence Honeywood
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Fee Baker
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organist
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Sergt. Roczinsky
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Leslie
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Terry Holmes
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David
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PC Overden
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Sergt. Bassett
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Miss Grainger
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man ARP warden
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Ernie Brooks
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Susanna Foster
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Sergt. Len
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Sergt. Smale
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Sergt. 'Stuffy'
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Agnes
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Leslie's mother
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Mrs Horton
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Archie
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Dorothy Bird
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Polly Finn
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Gwladys Swinton
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Mrs Colpeper
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police inspector
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waitress
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passer-by
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Mr Portal
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Geoffrey's father
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Arthur
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Introduction Spoken by (US vers only)
Raymond Massey (uncredited)
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Bob's sweetheart (US prints only)
Kim Hunter (uncredited)
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prioress
Harriet Petworth (uncredited)
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doctor of physic, pilgrim
Glyn Rowlands (uncredited)
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Credits
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Direction:
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Directed by
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Directed by
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Assistant Director
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[2nd Assistant Director]
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[2nd Assistant Director]
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[3rd Assistant Director]
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[Continuity]
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[Assistant Continuity]
Production:
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Production Company
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[Production Company]
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Produced by
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Produced by
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Production Manager
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Made in Canterbury and at
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logo
Writing:
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Written by
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Written by
Photography:
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Photographed by
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[Camera Operator]
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[Camera Operator (2nd)]
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[Camera Operator (2nd)]
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[Focus Puller]
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[Clapper Loader]
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[Clapper Loader]
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[Clapper Loader]
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[Clapper Loader]
Stills:
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[Stills]
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[Special Portraits]
Special Effects:
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[Back Projection]
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[Models]
Editing:
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Edited by
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[Assistant Editor]
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[Assistant Editor (2nd)]
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[Assistant Editor (2nd)]
Design:
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Production Designed by
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[Draughtsman]
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[Draughtsman]
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[Draughtsman]
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[Draughtsman]
Make-up:
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[Make-up]
Music:
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Music Composed by
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[Music] Conducted by
Sound:
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[Sound] Recorded by
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[Sound] Recorded by
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Exteriors Recorded by
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[Sound Maintenance (Interiors)]
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[Sound Maintenance (Interiors)]
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[Sound Maintenance (Exteriors)]
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[Sound Maintenance (Exteriors)]
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[Sound Camera Operator (Interiors)]
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[Sound Camera Operator (Exteriors)]
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[Sound Assistant]
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[Sound Camera (US version)]
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Sound System
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[Boom Operator (Exteriors)]
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[Boom Operator (Interiors)]
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[Boom Assistant]
Consultant:
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Period Advisor
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