“Sincerity and simplicity shine through every foot of this oversized modern version of the Chaucer epic tale. Here is rare beauty.”
A Land Girl, an American GI, and a British soldier (Sheila Sim, John Sweet and Dennis Price, respectively) are three modern pilgrims who are travelling to Canterbury for various personal reasons when they find themselves flung together in a small Kent town which is being plagued nightly by an unknown individual who is pouring glue on the hair of girls dating soldiers. The three attempt to track down the mysterious ‘Glue-Man', and begin to have suspicions of the local magistrate, Mr Colpeper (Eric Portman), an eccentric figure with a strange, mystical vision of the history of England in general and Canterbury in particular... Powell and Pressburger's Chaucer-inspired rumination on the English landscape is utterly charming - and one of the most bizarre pieces of wartime propaganda ever produced.
