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A Canterbury tale

A modern retelling of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, this is the story of four travelers who journey along the same path as Chaucer's pilgrims. and how their lives are intertwined. It is set during World War II, and has breathtaking film of the Kent countryside.

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  • "A modern retelling of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, this is the story of four travelers who journey along the same path as Chaucer's pilgrims, and how their lives are intertwined. It is set during World War II, and contains breathtaking views of the Kent countryside."
  • "A modern retelling of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, this is the story of four travelers who journey along the same path as Chaucer's pilgrims. and how their lives are intertwined. It is set during World War II, and has breathtaking film of the Kent countryside."@en
  • "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."
  • "Een gek giet 's nachts bij meisjes lijm in het haar. Een Amerikaanse en een Engelse sergeant gaan samen met een meisje op onderzoek uit. Bovendien vinden zij in Canterbury, als echte pelgrims, wat zij zochten."
  • "Reworking of Chaucer's epic 14th century tale, largely set in wartime Kent, centres on an American army sergeant, a British soldier, and a landgirl who, before making a modern-day pilgrimage to Canterbury, solve the bizarre mystery of a man who pours glue over the hair of village girls at night."
  • "During a blackout, three train passengers arrive at Chillingbourne in Kent. Londoner Alison Smith is a feisty representative of the Women's Land Army (aka the "land girls"). Bob Johnson is an American soldier whose intended destination was Canterbury. Peter Gibbs is a classical music student who worked in peacetime as a cinema organist. As they make their way through the village, Alison has something poured on to her hair by an unseen attacker. She is the latest victim of the Glue Man, a nocturnal rogue who harasses young women who date American soldiers. She, along with Bob and Peter, vow to track him down. Ostensibly a mystery, the film is principally a portrait of the bucolic English countryside during wartime."@en
  • "Sur le chemin de Canterbury en Angleterre, un soldat américain en permission, un soldat britanique organiste et un volontaire de la défense civile pour travailler à la ferme se rencontrent à la descente d'un train. Les aventures commencent..."
  • "Feature film from the UK. Mystery. Based on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, set in World War II."
  • ""This compelling drama is now recognised as one of Powell and Pressburger's finest films. Their reworking of Chaucer's epic 14th century tale, largely set in wartime Kent, centres on American army sergeant John Sweet, British soldier Dennis Price and landgirl Sheila Sim who, before making a modern-day pilgrimage to Canterbury, solve the bizarre mystery of a man who pours glue over the hair of village girls at night." - container."
  • "Follow three modern-day incarnations of Chaucer's pilgrims - a landgirl, an American GI, and a British sergeant waylaid in the English countryside, forced to solve a bizarre village crime en route to a mythical town."@en
  • "This compelling drama is now recognised as one of Powell and Pressburger's finest films. Their reworking of Chaucer's 14th century tale, largely set in wartime Kent, centres on American army sergeant John Sweet, British soldier Dennis Price and landgirl Sheila Sim who, before making a modern-day pilgrimage to Canterbury, solve the bizarre mystery of a man who pours glue over the hair of village girls at night."@en
  • "This compelling drama is now recognised as one of Powell and Pressburger's finest films. Their reworking of Chaucer's 14th century tale, largely set in wartime Kent, centres on American army sergeant John Sweet, British soldier Dennis Price and landgirl Sheila Sim who, before making a modern-day pilgrimage to Canterbury, solve the bizarre mystery of a man who pours glue over the hair of village girls at night."
  • "On a wartime pilgrimage to Canterbury three young people in search of spiritual peace encounter strange attacks on the girls of a Kentish village. The journey is both literally and spiritually a journey in the shadow of Chaucer from darkness to light, an exploration of the spiritual values of rural England. Powell called it 'a crusade against materialism'. The living past is found in the countryside where a sense of magic and the bizarre is conveyed through a symphonic-like structure and camera poetry."@en
  • ""Désireux de protéger les moeurs de sa cité, un juge de paix britannique se donne une mission : surveiller les soldats américains qui pourraient venir séduire les femmes de la ville..."

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