Movie: A Canterbury Tale

Top 10 Billed Cast

Eric Portman
Eric Portman

Thomas Colpeper, JP

Sheila Sim
Sheila Sim

Alison Smith

Dennis Price
Dennis Price

Peter Gibbs

John Sweet
John Sweet

Bob Johnson

Charles Hawtrey
Charles Hawtrey

Thomas Duckett

Esmond Knight
Esmond Knight

Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot

Hay Petrie
Hay Petrie

Woodcock

George Merritt
George Merritt

Ned Horton

Edward Rigby
Edward Rigby

Jim Horton

Freda Jackson
Freda Jackson

Prudence Honeywood

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The Caravan Scene - A Canterbury Tale (1944)

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