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A Canterbury Tale (1944)

MMR 4.0/5
Review Published 21-08-2026

Overview

4.0/5
Summary
A 'Land Girl', an American GI, and a British soldier find themselves together in a small Kent town on the road to Canterbury. The town is being plagued by a mysterious "glue-man", who pours glue on the hair of girls dating soldiers after dark. The three attempt to track him down, and begin to have suspicions of the local magistrate, an eccentric figure with a strange, mystical vision of the history of England in general and Canterbury in particular.
Year
1944
Released
21-01-1949
Runtime
124 min
MPAA Rating
Approved
7.3
Metascore
85