Editing A Canterbury Tale

{{Short description|1944 British film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger}}
{{distinguish|The Canterbury Tales (film)}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = A Canterbury Tale
| image          = Canterburytaleposter.jpg
| caption        = US theatrical poster (1949)
| director       = [[Michael Powell]]<br />[[Emeric Pressburger]]
| producer       = Michael Powell<br />Emeric Pressburger
| writer         = Michael Powell<br />Emeric Pressburger
| starring       = [[Eric Portman]]<br />[[Sheila Sim]]<br />[[Dennis Price]]<br />[[Kim Hunter]]{{efn|Only in American re-release}}<br />Sgt [[John Sweet (actor)|John Sweet]]
| music          = [[Allan Gray (composer)|Allan Gray]]
| cinematography = [[Erwin Hillier]]
| editing        = [[John Seabourne|John Seabourne Sr.]]
| studio = [[The Archers (film production)|The Archers]]
| distributor    = [[General Film Distributors]]
| released       = {{Film date|1944|08|21|df=yes}}
| runtime        = 124 minutes
| country        = United Kingdom
| language       = English
| budget         = 
| gross          = 
}}

'''''A Canterbury Tale''''' is a 1944 [[Cinema of the United Kingdom|British]] film by [[Powell and Pressburger|Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger]] starring [[Eric Portman]], [[Sheila Sim]], [[Dennis Price]] and [[John Sweet (actor)|Sgt. John Sweet]]; [[Esmond Knight]] provided narration and played two small roles. For the post-war American release, [[Raymond Massey]] narrated and [[Kim Hunter]] was added to the film. The film was made in black and white, and was the first of two collaborations between Powell and Pressburger and cinematographer [[Erwin Hillier]].<!-- If you count ''The Silver Fleet'' then this was the 2nd of 3 collaborations. But P&P were only producers on ''The Silver Fleet'' -->

Much of the film's visual style is a mixture of British realism and Hillier's [[German Expressionism|German Expressionist]] style that is harnessed through a [[neo-romanticism|neo-romantic]] sense of the English landscape. The concept that 'the past always haunts the present' in the English landscape was already part of English literary culture, e.g. in works by [[Rudyard Kipling]] such as ''[[Puck of Pook's Hill]]'', and would become a notable [[Trope (literature)|trope]] for British novelists and film-makers from the 1960s. ''A Canterbury Tale'' takes its title from the 14th-century ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'' of [[Geoffrey Chaucer]] and loosely uses Chaucer's theme of "eccentric characters on a religious pilgrimage" to highlight the wartime experiences of the citizens of [[Kent]] and encourage wartime Anglo-American friendship and understanding. [[Anglo-American relations]] were also explored in Powell and Pressburger's previous film ''[[The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp]]'' and in more detail in their subsequent film ''[[A Matter of Life and Death (film)#Anglo-American relations|A Matter of Life and Death]]''.

==Plot==
[[File:Canterbury - Turm der St. George's Church, in der Marlowe getauft wurde.jpg|thumb|left|St George's Church tower, seen in the film after being gutted in the [[Baedeker raids]] (modern photograph)]]

The story concerns three young people: British Army Sergeant Peter Gibbs, U.S. Army Sergeant Bob Johnson, and a "[[Women's Land Army|Land Girl]]", Miss Alison Smith. The group arrive at the railway station in the fictitious small [[Kent]] town of Chillingbourne (filmed in [[Chilham]], [[Fordwich]], [[Wickhambreaux]] and other villages in the area), near [[Canterbury]], late on Friday night, 27 August 1943. Peter has been stationed at a nearby Army camp, Alison is due to start working on a farm in the area, and Bob left the train by mistake, hearing the announcement "next stop Canterbury" and thinking he was in Canterbury.

As they leave the station together Alison is attacked by an assailant in uniform, who pours glue on her hair before escaping. It transpires that this has happened to other women, and the mystery attacker is known locally as "the glue man". Alison asks Bob if he will spend the weekend in Chillingbourne to help her solve the mystery. The next day, while riding a farm cart in the countryside, Alison meets Peter, who surrounds her cart with his platoon of three [[Bren Gun Carrier]]s. Alison agrees to meet Peter again. The three decide to investigate the attack, enlisting the help of the locals, including several small boys who play large-scale [[Military simulation|war game]]s.

The three use their detective skills to identify the culprit as a local magistrate, Thomas Colpeper, a gentleman farmer and pillar of the community, who also gives local history lectures to soldiers stationed in the district. Alison interviews all the glue man's victims to identify the dates and times of their attacks. Gibbs visits Colpeper at his home and steals the fire watch roster listing the nights Colpeper was on duty in the town hall, whilst a paper drive for salvage by Johnson's boy commandos lets Johnson discover receipts for gum used to make glue sold to Colpeper. The dates of the attacks correspond with Colpeper's night watches, for which he wore a [[Home Guard (United Kingdom)|Home Guard]] uniform kept in the town hall.

On their train journey to Canterbury on the Monday morning, Colpeper joins the three in their compartment. They confront him with their suspicions, which he does not deny, and they discover that his motive is to prevent the soldiers from being distracted from his lectures by female company, as well as to help keep the local women faithful to their absent British boyfriends. In Colpeper's words, Chaucer's pilgrims travelled to Canterbury to "receive a blessing or to do penance". On arriving in the city of Canterbury, devastated by wartime bombing, all three young people receive blessings of their own. Alison discovers that her boyfriend, believed killed in the war, has survived after all; his father, who had blocked their marriage because he thought his son could do better than a shopgirl, finally relents. Bob receives long-delayed letters from his sweetheart, who is now a [[Women's Army Corps|WAC]] in Australia. Peter, a [[Theatre organ|cinema organist]] before the war, gets to play the music of [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] on the large organ at [[Canterbury Cathedral]], before leaving with his unit. He decides not to report Colpeper to the Canterbury police, as he had planned to do.

==Cast==
[[File:ACT Characters.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Gibbs, Johnson and Smith<br />The Seven Sisters Soldier is standing behind Peter & Bob and Sergt. 'Stuffy' (''[[Graham Moffatt]]'') is asleep]]
* [[Eric Portman]] as Thomas Colpeper, a gentleman farmer and [[Justice of the Peace|magistrate]] in Chillingbourne. He is a bachelor, living with his mother and, being very keen on the local history of the area, wants to share that knowledge with everyone around him, particularly with the soldiers from elsewhere in Britain who have been billeted nearby.
* [[John Sweet (actor)|Sgt. John Sweet, U.S. Army]] as Acting Sgt. Bob Johnson, ASN 31036062, hails from [[Three Sisters (Oregon)|Three Sisters Falls]], [[Oregon]]. On his way from [[Salisbury]] to [[Canterbury]] to meet his friend and fulfil a promise to his mother to see [[Canterbury Cathedral]], he gets off the train at Chillingbourne (filmed at [[Selling railway station]] between [[Faversham]] and [[Canterbury]]) by mistake and almost immediately gets caught up in the mystery of the "glue man". He has come to Britain as a part of the [[United States Army|American Army]] preparing for the [[D-Day|invasion of Europe]]. He becomes more and more willing to learn something about England during his visit. The original script mentioned that Johnson was on his way to Canterbury as his ancestors had come from there.<ref Name="Tritton" /> The producers had originally planned to use [[Burgess Meredith]] in the role but changed their mind in favour of an unknown. Meredith acted as a script editor for Johnson's character.<ref Name="Tritton" />
* [[Dennis Price]] as Sgt Peter Gibbs, a [[theatre organ|cinema organist]] from London. He has been conscripted into the [[British Army]] and has just been stationed at the military camp outside Chillingbourne, where his unit is engaged in training manoeuvres.
* [[Sheila Sim]] as Alison Smith, a shop assistant in a [[department store]] in London. She has joined the [[Women's Land Army]] to "do her bit" to help in the defence of her country. She has been assigned to the farm of Thomas Colpeper, the local [[Justice of the Peace#England and Wales|JP]] in Chillingbourne. Alison had previously spent a happy summer just outside Chillingbourne, living in a [[travel trailer|caravan]] with her fiancé, an archaeologist who has since joined the [[Royal Air Force|RAF]] and is missing in action at the outset of the film. (He is reported at the end as alive and in Gibraltar). Alison is determined to solve the mystery of the "glue man" and seeks the help of Bob Johnson to do so. Johnson replies "You need about as much help as a [[Flying Fortress]]".
* [[Charles Hawtrey (actor born 1914)|Charles Hawtrey]] as Thomas Duckett, the town's stationmaster.
* [[Esmond Knight]] as Narrator/Seven-Sisters Soldier/Village Idiot. The Narrator reads the modernised extract from [[Geoffrey Chaucer|Chaucer]]'s ''[[The Canterbury Tales|Canterbury Tales]]'', followed by a piece in Chaucerian style on the changes to Kent since Chaucer's time (both only in the original version).
* [[George Merritt (actor)|George Merritt]] as Ned Horton and [[Edward Rigby]] as Jim Horton, play the [[blacksmith]] and the [[wheelwright]]. The real Horton brothers, Ben and Neville, are seen acting as assistants to the actors.
* Hay Petrie as Woodcock.
* [[Freda Jackson]] as Mrs Prudence Honeywood, the farming woman who employs Alison.
* [[Eliot Makeham]] as the cathedral organist in Canterbury.
* [[Betty Jardine]] as Fee Baker.
* Harvey Golden as Sgt Roczinsky, Bob Johnson's friend in Canterbury.
* Leonard Smith (Leslie) James Tamsitt (Terry) and David Todd (David), play among the group of boys enjoying an adventure and river battle in a bucolic setting. All of them were local to the Canterbury area. Smith, Tamsitt and Todd were selected for speaking roles.
* Beresford Egan as PC Ovenden.
* [[Anthony Holles (actor)|Anthony Holles]] as Sergt. Bassett.
* Maude Lambert as Miss Grainger.
* Wally Bosco as ARP man.
* Charles Paton as Ernie Brooks.
* Jane Millican as Susanna Foster.
* [[John Slater (actor)|John Slater]] as Sergt. Len.
* [[Michael Golden (actor)|Michael Golden]] as Sergt. Smale.
* [[Graham Moffatt]] as Sergt. 'Stuffy'.
* Mary Line as Leslie's mother.
* Winifred Swaffer as Mrs Horton.
* [[Michael Howard (comedian)|Michael Howard]] as Archie.
* [[Judith Furse]] as Dorothy Bird.
* [[Barbara Waring]] as Polly Finn.
* Jean Shepeard as Gwladys Swinton.
* [[Margaret Scudamore]] as Mrs Colpeper.
* [[Joss Ambler]] as Police Inspector.
* Jessie James as Waitress.
* Kathleen Lucas as a passer- by.
* [[H. F. Maltby]] as Mr Portal.
* [[Eric Maturin]] as Geoffrey's father.
* Parry Jones jnr as Arthur.
* [[Kim Hunter]] as Johnson's Girl (American release).
* [[Raymond Massey]] as Narrator (American version) (voice).
* [[Esma Cannon]] as Agnes the maid.

==Production==
===Writing===
Powell and Pressburger, who were known collectively as "The Archers", wrote the script together, linking the concepts of landscape and history (light and time) with the personal journey of three people—the pilgrims—to show a basis of common identity.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/432-a-tribute-a-canterbury-tale|title=A Tribute: A Canterbury Tale|first=Peter|last=von Bagh|publisher=criterion.com|access-date=18 August 2021|archive-date=27 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927220613/https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/432-a-tribute-a-canterbury-tale|url-status=live}}</ref> Powell was said to have used the work of [[Chaucer]] as inspiration to create a film that showed "the love of his birthplace and all that he felt about England".<ref name=DT>{{cite news|title=A Canterbury Tale at 70: a ray of English sunshine|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/11059651/A-Canterbury-Tale-at-70-a-ray-of-English-sunshine.html|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=30 August 2014|access-date=6 April 2018|archive-date=20 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170820092127/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/11059651/A-Canterbury-Tale-at-70-a-ray-of-English-sunshine.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Casting===
All three leads were unknowns.<ref name=DT/> Many local people, including a lot of young boys, were recruited as extras for the extensive scenes of children's outdoor activities such as river "battles" and [[Children's den|den]]s.<ref name=DT/>

===Filming===
The film was shot throughout the county of Kent not long after the [[Baedeker raids]] of May–June 1942 which had destroyed large areas of the city centre of Canterbury. Much of the film is shot on location in and around Canterbury Cathedral and the city's bomb sites, including the High Street, Rose Lane and the Buttermarket. The cathedral was not available for filming as the [[stained glass]] had been taken down, the windows boarded up and the organ, an important location for the story, removed to storage, all for protection against air raids. By the use of clever perspective, large portions of the cathedral were recreated within the studio by art director [[Alfred Junge]].<ref>{{cite book  | last =Powell  | first =Michael  | author-link =Michael Powell  | title =A Life in Movies: An Autobiography  | publisher =[[Heinemann (publisher)|Heinemann]]  | year =1986  | location =London  | isbn = 0-434-59945-X}}</ref>

Several Kent villages including [[Chilham]], [[Wickhambreaux]], [[Fordwich]] and [[Wingham, Kent|Wingham]] were used for scenes showing the fictional village of Chillingbourne. [[Selling, Kent|Selling Station]] appears in the film as Chillingbourne Station at the beginning of the film. Chilham Mill features in the film in the scene where GI Bob meets children playing in the river on a boat and later, with Peter, when they get the proof about Colpeper. The scene where soldiers gather for a lecture at the Colpepper Institute was filmed in [[Fordwich]]. As Bob and Alison ride on a cart through the village, [[Wickhambreaux#Landmarks|Wickham Mill]], Wickhambreaux, can be clearly seen. Colpeper's house was [[Wickhambreaux#Landmarks|Wickhambreaux Court]]. A local [[Wingham, Kent|Wingham]] village pub "The Red Lion" was used for some exterior shots of "The Hand of Glory" inn where Bob stays whilst in the village.<ref>{{cite web|author=Kent Film Office|url=http://kentfilmoffice.co.uk/1944/11/a-canterbury-tale-1944/|title=Kent Film Office A Canterbury Tale Film Focus|date=21 August 1944 |access-date=19 July 2013|archive-date=4 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131204072703/http://kentfilmoffice.co.uk/1944/11/a-canterbury-tale-1944/|url-status=live}}</ref> Other exterior shots of "The Hand of Glory" were filmed at "The George and Dragon", [[Fordwich]].<ref Name="Tritton" />

Before the credits, the following acknowledgement appears over an image of the cathedral viewed from the Christ Church Gate,

{{blockquote|The Archers gratefully acknowledge the invaluable help and advice given to them by the [[Dean of Canterbury|Dean]] and ''Chapter of Canterbury'',<ref>[https://www.canterbury-cathedral.org/our-story/chapter-and-senior-leadership/ The Chapter of Canterbury comprises the Dean, the Residentiary Canons, and six additional non-executive lay persons appointed]</ref> the Very Reverend the [[Cuthbert Thicknesse|Dean of St Albans]], the Mayor and Corporation of Canterbury, the Women's Land Army, and by the United States Army. They also thank the citizens of Canterbury and men and women of Kent who helped to make the film.}}

==Soundtrack==
Besides that composed by [[Allan Gray (composer)|Allan Gray]] for the film, musical works featured include:
* "[[Angelus ad Virginem]]" mid-15th century polyphony heard as a peal of bells in orchestral guise under the opening titles
* "Commando Patrol" by Allan Gray, Stan Bowsher, [[Walter Ridley]] – quickstep heard in the background during Johnson and Gibbs's scene in the lobby of the Hand of Glory
* "I See You Everywhere" by Allan Gray, Stan Bowsher, Walter Ridley – slow foxtrot heard in the background during Johnson and Gibbs's scene in the lobby of the Hand of Glory
* "Turkey in the Straw" – folksong heard as Agnes leaves Bob's bedroom
* "Come to the Church in the Wild Wood" – Bob sings as he washes
* "[[Hear my prayer, O Lord (Purcell)|Hear my prayer, O Lord]]" by [[Henry Purcell]] – the ethereal choral music heard as Gibbs pauses on entering the cathedral
* "Bond of Friendship" – Regimental March of the King's Division. Played as the band nears the Cathedral
* [[Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565]] by [[Johann Sebastian Bach|J. S. Bach]] (the original while inside the cathedral and the orchestration by [[Leopold Stokowski]] outside the cathedral) and the hymn "[[Onward Christian Soldiers]]" – played on the organ by Gibbs

==Reception==
The world premiere was held on 11 May 1944 at the Friars' Cinema (later the second site of the [[Marlowe Theatre]], now demolished), Canterbury, England, an event commemorated there by a plaque unveiled by stars Sheila Sim and John Sweet in October 2000.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Trips/Canterbury/20001010/Steve.html |title=A Canterbury Tale or two |access-date=17 October 2006 |archive-date=12 March 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070312044320/http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Trips/Canterbury/20001010/Steve.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Although the film initially had very poor reviews in the UK press,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/44_ACT/ACT14.html |title=Contemporary review |access-date=12 August 2006 |archive-date=12 March 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070312044256/http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/44_ACT/ACT14.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and only small audiences, it became a moderate success at the British box office in 1944.<ref>Murphy, Robert (2003_ [https://books.google.com/books?id=xtGIAgAAQBAJ&dq=hungry+hill+film+box+office&pg=PA209 ''Realism and Tinsel: Cinema and Society in Britain 1939-48''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230305060302/https://books.google.com.au/books?id=xtGIAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA209&lpg=PA209&dq=hungry+hill+film+box+office&source=bl&ots=MTsQXadYDw&sig=2h-5aG3Vy4tT_h1mlC4mfRi18JQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiZ8b6P1YHMAhVEFqYKHcy9BF8Q6AEIMzAF#v=onepage&q=hungry%20hill%20film%20box%20office&f=false |date=5 March 2023 }} p.207</ref>

The film was the first production of [[Powell and Pressburger]] not to be a major box office draw.<ref Name="Tritton">Tritton, Paul. ''[http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/44_ACT/TheBook2.html A Canterbury Tale – Memories of a Classic Wartime Movie] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071116050421/http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/44_ACT/TheBook2.html |date=16 November 2007 }}''. Canterbury: Tritton Publications, August 2000. {{ISBN|0-9524094-2-9}}.</ref> With the war over Powell was forced by the studio to completely re-edit the film for the U.S. release, cutting over 20 minutes to make the film shorter and faster moving, adding narration by [[Raymond Massey]], and filming "bookends" which introduced [[Kim Hunter]] as Sergeant Johnson's girlfriend to make the film more contemporary. At the time of filming, Hunter and Massey were preparing to film ''[[A Matter of Life and Death (film)|A Matter of Life and Death]]'' for Powell. Powell filmed Hunter's sequences with Sweet on an English set simulating New York City where the couple, now married, presented the film as a [[Flashback (narrative)|flashback]] similar to the openings of ''[[The Way to the Stars]]'' and ''[[12 O'Clock High]]''. Sweet was actually filmed in New York with the sequences combined.<ref Name="Tritton" /> The film was fully restored by the British Film Institute in the late 1970s and the new print was hailed as a masterwork of British cinema. It has since been reissued on DVD in both the UK and USA.

==Legacy==
There is now an annual festival based around the film in which film fans tour the film's locations.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Trips/Canterbury/index.html |title=Location walks |access-date=12 August 2006 |archive-date=16 August 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060816024024/http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Trips/Canterbury/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The theme of the film was used by [[Spike Milligan]] for [[Goon Show|''The Goon Show'']] episode "The Phantom Head Shaver of Brighton" in 1954.<ref>
*https://thegoonshow.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=The_Phantom_Head_Shaver_(of_Brighton)
*https://thegoonshow.co.uk/scripts/headshaver.html
*http://www.dabdig.co.uk/goons/scripts/Phantom_Head_Shaver.htm
*{{cite web|url=http://www.thegoonshow.net/scripts_show.asp?title=s05e04_the_phantom_head_shaver|title= The Phantom Head Shaver of Brighton|access-date=23 June 2008| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080608165811/http://www.thegoonshow.net/scripts_show.asp?title=s05e04_the_phantom_head_shaver| archive-date= 8 June 2008 | url-status=usurped }}</ref> The film was shown in the nave of Canterbury Cathedral on 19 September 2007 to help raise money for the cathedral restoration fund<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/history/canterbury_tale/ BBC Kent] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090618083908/http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/history/canterbury_tale/ |date=18 June 2009 }}</ref> and in the Chilham village hall in May 2014 to help raise money for the restoration of its war memorial. The screening, which took place in the village where the film was made, coincided with the 70th anniversary of the film's premiere in Canterbury.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Trips/Canterbury/20140511/index.html|title=ACT screening, Chilham, 11 May 2014|publisher=powell-pressburger.org|access-date=26 February 2018|archive-date=18 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190618194655/http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Trips/Canterbury/20140511/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Several [[video art]]ists have recut the more visionary sections of the film as video art.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/44_ACT/VictorBurgin.html|title=Victor Burgin at the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol|publisher=powell-pressburger.org|access-date=26 February 2018|archive-date=3 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103195144/http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/44_ACT/VictorBurgin.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Dialogue from the film was sampled on the track "Introduction" on the album ''[[Merrie Land]]'' by [[The Good, the Bad & the Queen]], and [[Dreadzone]]'s ''[[Second Light]]''.

==References==
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===Bibliography===
* {{cite book|first=Michael|last= Powell|author-link= Michael Powell|year=1986|title=A Life in Movies: An Autobiography|publisher=[[Heinemann (book publisher)|London: Heinemann]]|isbn=0-434-59945-X}}.
* {{cite book|first=Michael|last= Powell| year=1992|title=Million Dollar Movie|publisher=London: Heinemann|isbn=0-434-59947-6}}.
* {{cite book|last=Tritton|first= Paul |year= 2000|title=A Canterbury Tale – Memories of a Classic Wartime Movie|publisher= Canterbury: Tritton Publications|isbn=0-9524094-2-9}}.

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0036695}}
* {{Rotten Tomatoes|a_canterbury_tale_1949}}
* {{TCMDb title|70193}}
* {{screenonline title | 438020 }}
* [http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/44_ACT Reviews and articles] at the [http://www.powell-pressburger.org Powell & Pressburger Pages]
* [https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/432-a-tribute-a-canterbury-tale ''A Tribute: A Canterbury Tale''] an essay by [[Peter von Bagh]] at the [[Criterion Collection]]
* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/content/articles/2007/09/15/canterbury_tale_scorsese_video_feature.shtml Scorsese and Schoonmaker talk about ''A Canterbury Tale'']
* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/content/articles/2007/08/21/canterbury_tale_screening_feature.shtml A screening of ''A Canterbury Tale'' in Canterbury cathedral]

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