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Title A Canterbury tale / Janus Films ; a production of the Archers ; written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Edition Standard format (1.33:1)
Published Irvington, N.Y. : Criterion Collection, [2006]
©2006

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 MELB  791.4372 Pow/Cta  AVAILABLE
Description 2 videodisc (DVD) (124 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (20 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Series Criterion Collection ; 341
Criterion collection ; 341
Summary Reworking of Chaucer's epic 14th century tale, largely set in 1940s wartime Kent, with three modern-day incarnations of Chaucer's pilgrims: a plainspoken American Army sergeant, a resourceful British sergeant, and a melancholy girl. While enroute to Canterbury they are waylaid and forced to solve a local crime, the mystery of a man who pours glue over the hair of village girls at night
Notes Based on the work: The Canterbury tales / by Geoffrey Chaucer
Special features (disc 1): Optional audio commentary by film historian Ian Christie; "American version excerpts" featuring the prologue and ending sequence of the American version with Kim Hunter (12 min)
Special features (disc 2): "Sheila Sim interview" featuring Sim's recollections of the production (20 min.); "John Sweet: a pilgrim's return," a documentary on Sweet's 2000 return to Canterbury to speak at the Kent International Film Festival (23 min.); "A Canterbury trail," a tour-guide documentary of the actual film locations (24 min.); "Listen to Britain," a 2001 video-installation piece by English artist Victor Burgin inspired by the film of the same name with an introduction by Burgin (7 min.); "Listen to Britain," a 1942 documentary by Humphrey Jennings (19 min.)
Program notes on container insert include an essay "A Canterbury Tale: 'Glorious, isn't it?'" by film writer Graham Fuller, an essay "A tribute" by film historian Peter von Bagh, and an excerpt from "The Making of A Canterbury tale" from an essay by actor Sweet, originally featured on the Powell and Pressburger Appreciation Society's website
Credits Photography, Erwin Hillier ; editor, John Seabourne ; original music, Allan Gray
Cast Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price, John Sweet
Notes DVD, region 1; Dolby Digital mono
Not rated
In English
Closed captioned
Subject Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Adaptations.
World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- Kent -- Drama.
Travelers -- England -- Kent -- Drama.
Country life -- England -- Kent -- Drama.
SUBJECT England -- Social life and customs -- 20th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043325 -- Drama. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001612
Genre/Form Detective and mystery films.
Feature films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings.
Adaptations.
Drama.
Author Powell, Michael, 1905-1990.
Pressburger, Emeric, 1902-1988.
Portman, Eric, 1901-1969.
Sim, Sheila, 1922-2016.
Price, Dennis, 1915-1973.
Sweet, John, 1916-
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Canterbury tales.
Fuller, Graham, 1956-
Bagh, Peter von, 1943-2014.
Burgin, Victor.
Jennings, Humphrey.
Janus Films.
Archers (Firm)
Criterion Collection (Firm)
ISBN 1559409878
9781559409872
Other Titles Canterbury tales
Pilgim's return
Listen to Britain
Canterbury trail