A Canterbury tale

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:[Irvington, N.Y.?] : Criterion Collection, c2006.
Description:2 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (20 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language:English
Series:Criterion collection ; 341
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 341.
Subject:Chaucer, Geoffrey, -- -1400 -- Adaptations.
World War (1939-1945)
Canterbury tale (Motion picture)
World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- Kent -- Drama.
Travelers -- England -- Kent -- Drama.
Villages -- England -- Kent -- Drama.
Country life -- England -- Kent -- Drama.
Detective and mystery films.
Motion pictures, British.
Feature films.
Country life.
Manners and customs.
Pilgrims and pilgrimages.
Travelers.
Kent (England) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Drama.
England -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Drama.
England.
England -- Kent.
Fiction films.
Detective and mystery films.
Drama.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Format: DVD Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6125934
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other title:Pilgim's return.
Canterbury trail.
Listen to Britain.
Other authors / contributors:Powell, Michael, 1905-1990.
Pressburger, Emeric, 1902-1988
Portman, Eric, 1901-1969
Sim, Sheila.
Price, Dennis, 1915-1973.
Sweet, John, 1916-
Archers (Firm)
Criterion Collection (Firm)
ISBN:1559409878
Notes:Special features: (disc 1) audio commentary by film historian Ian Christie; excerpts from the American version with Kim Hunter; (disc 2) new interview with Sheila Sim; "A pilgrim's return," a documentary about John Sweet; "A Canterbury trail," a documentary vistit to film locations; "Listen to Britain," a 2001 video-installation piece by Victor Burgin inspired by the film; "Listen to Britain," a 1942 documentary by Humphrey Jennings.
Videodisc release of the 1944 British motion picture by the Archers.
Producers/writers/directors, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger ; photography, Erwin Hillier ; editor, John Seabourne ; original music, Allan Gray.
Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price, Sergeant John Sweet.
DVD; full screen (1.33:1) aspect ratio.
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
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:Not rated.
Standard no.:715515018920
Publisher's no.:CC1639D Criterion Collection

Regenstein, 2nd and 3rd Floor Video/DVD Collection

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Call Number: DVD PN1997.2.C368 2006
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