A Canterbury Tale

John Sweet as Bob Johnson Charles Hawtrey as Thomas Duckett Eliot Makeham as Organist John Slater as Sergt. Len Eric Portman as Thomas Colpeper, JP Sheila Sim as Alison Smith Esmond Knight as Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot Freda Jackson as Prudence Honeywood Wallace Bosco as A. R. P. Worker Eric Maturin as Geoffrey's Father Edward Rigby as Jim Horton Dennis Price as Peter Gibbs Hay Petrie as Woodcock George Merritt as Ned Horton Esma Cannon as Agnes Jane Millican as Susanna Foster Charles Paton as Ernie Brooks Graham Moffatt as Sergt. Stuffy Joss Ambler as Police Inspector George Hall as Police Superintendent (uncredited) Judith Furse as Dorothy Bird Margaret Scudamore as Mrs Colpeper

Alfred Junge Production Design Michael Powell Writer, Director, Producer Erwin Hillier Director of Photography John Sweet Vocals Emeric Pressburger Director, Writer, Producer