TY - ADVS AU - Powell,Michael AU - Pressburger,Emeric AU - Portman,Eric AU - Sim,Sheila AU - Price,Dennis AU - Sweet,John AU - Hawtrey,Charles AU - Knight,Esmond AU - Petrie,Hay AU - Merritt,George AU - Rigby,Edward AU - Jackson,Freda AU - Gray,Allan AU - Junge,Alfred TI - A Canterbury tale AV - Media cabinet : CANT PY - 1999/// CY - [S.l.] PB - Carlton Home Entertainment KW - Feature films KW - Great Britain N1 - A DVD release of the film produced in 1944; Sergeant John Sweet is incorrectly credited as "Sergeant John Smith" on packaging; Music, Allan Gray ; cinematography, Erwin Hillier ; film editor, John Seabourne ; production designer, Alfred Junge ; costume designers, Arthur Breton, Dorothy Edwards; Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price, Sergeant John Sweet, Charles Hawtrey, Esmond Knight, Hay Petrie, George Merritt, Edward Rigby, Freda Jackson; UK Cert. U N2 - 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 ER -