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| Assorted Canterbury bound travellers are invited to tell tales... 1. An elderly knight finds his much younger wife is attracted to much younger fellows 2. Justice it passed on two homosexual trysts, overseen by the devil. 3. The Adventures of Perkins, a fellow looking for a job. 4. A fellow hatches a plan to bed the wife of a carpenter 5. A tale of The Wife of Bath who hopes to find a suitable suitor. 6. Two young men have an adventure with the miller. 7. In which three men find a treasure trove and what happens. 8. In which a priest covets a dying man's worldly goods and is shown around hell. Bawdy telling of some of Chaucer's tales (and some totally the invention of the director). The framing device of the story tellers is frankly bungled, less there's a version I haven't seen. The yarns themselves variable but fun, particularly #4. Fantastic location scenary and sense of time and place, also noted by Michael Palin then working on Holy Grail. The devil 'farting' fallen priests is an image that has been with me for 40 years. |
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2nd July 1972 Berlin Film Festival | ||
![]() | I racconti di Canterbury 2nd September 1972 Cinema | |
![]() | Canterbury Tales 14th June 1973 Cinema | |
Canterbury Tales 21st July 1998 DVD 1.85:1 | ||
![]() | 13th November 2012 Blu-Ray 1.77:1 |
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| Thursday, 14th June 1973 - Wednesday, 13th March 1974 | Scene | UK |