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Title A CANTERBURY TALE [DVD videorecording]
Publication Info. [Irvington, N.Y.?] : Criterion Collection, c2006.
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Description 2 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Series Criterion collection ; 341
Audience Not rated.
System Details DVD; full screen (1.33:1) aspect ratio.
Note Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
Special features: (disc 1) audio commentary by film historian Ian Christie; excerpts from the American version with Kim Hunter; (disc 2) new interview with Sheila Sim; "A pilgrim's return," a documentary about John Sweet; "A Canterbury trail," a documentary vistit to film locations; "Listen to Britain," a 2001 video-installation piece by Victor Burgin inspired by the film; "Listen to Britain," a 1942 documentary by Humphrey Jennings.
Videodisc release of the 1944 British motion picture by the Archers.
Credits Producers/writers/directors, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger ; photography, Erwin Hillier ; editor, John Seabourne ; original music, Allan Gray.
Cast Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price, Sergeant John Sweet.
Summary Reworking of Chaucer's epic 14th century tale, largely set in 1940s wartime Kent. It centers on three modern-day incarnations of Chaucer's pilgrims: a plainspoken American Army sergeant (Sweet), a resourceful British sergeant (Price), and a melancholy landgirl (Sim). While enroute to Canterbury, they are waylaid and forced to solve a bizarre village crime: the mystery of a man who pours glue over the hair of village girls at night.
Subject Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 -- Adaptations.
Canterbury tale (Motion picture)
World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- Kent -- Drama.
Travelers -- England -- Kent -- Drama.
Villages -- England -- Kent -- Drama.
Country life -- England -- Kent -- Drama.
Detective and mystery films.
Motion pictures, British.
Feature films.
Kent (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Drama.
England -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Drama.
Added Author Powell, Michael, 1905-1990.
Pressburger, Emeric.
Portman, Eric, 1903-1969.
Sim, Sheila.
Price, Dennis, 1915-1973.
Sweet, John, 1916-
Archers (Firm)
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Added Title Pilgim's return.
Canterbury trail.
Listen to Britain.
ISBN 1559409878 : $39.95
Standard No. 715515018920
Music # CC1639D Criterion Collection
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