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Article: Powell and Pressburger's A Canterbury Tale: new pilgrims, old pilgrimage.(Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)(Critical essay)
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- Literature-Film Quarterly
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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The main action of the 1944 film A Canterbury Tale, produced, written, and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, begins eccentrically enough with the attack of a young woman in the company of two sergeants--one British and the other American--in the mythical village of Chillingbourne in Kent. It is night, and the assailant, who appears without warning, remains a shadowy figure, escaping before either the girl or the soldiers can react. His crime? He has poured a quantity of glue on the girl's hair. So begins the search over the next two days through the village for the mysterious "Glue Man," who, as the three almost immediately discover from the local ...
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Article: Michael Powell.(Review)
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March 22, 1997 ;
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... ... Rich and strange are the movies of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Masterpiece ... Even their quiet films, like A Canterbury Tale, which invokes an unconscious religious ... oblique, and different every time. A Canterbury Tale has an intersection of different ...
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