A Canterbury Tale

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

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