A Canterbury tale
Type
Label
A Canterbury tale
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
Not rated
Main title
A Canterbury tale
Oclc number
70785037
Runtime
124
Series statement
Criterion collection, 341
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
Target audience
general
Technique
live action
Contributor
Subject
- Motion pictures, British
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Adaptations
- Canterbury tale (Motion picture)
- Feature films
- England -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Drama
- Kent (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Drama
- Detective and mystery films
- Travelers -- England -- Kent -- Drama
- World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- Kent -- Drama
- Country life -- England -- Kent -- Drama
- Videodiscs
- Villages -- England -- Kent -- Drama
Content
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Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Contributor8
- Genre2
- Subject12
- Motion pictures, British
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Adaptations
- Canterbury tale (Motion picture)
- Feature films
- England -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Drama
- Kent (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Drama
- Detective and mystery films
- Travelers -- England -- Kent -- Drama
- World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- Kent -- Drama
- Country life -- England -- Kent -- Drama
- Videodiscs
- Villages -- England -- Kent -- Drama
- Content1
- Is Part Of1
- Related to3
- Mapped to1