"Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury."
Eric Portman
as Thomas Colpeper, JP
Sheila Sim
as Alison Smith
Dennis Price
as Peter Gibbs
John Sweet
as Bob Johnson
Charles Hawtrey
as Thomas Duckett
Esmond Knight
as Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot
Hay Petrie
as Woodcock
George Merritt
as Ned Horton
Edward Rigby
as Jim Horton
Freda Jackson
as Prudence Honeywood
Betty Jardine
as Fee Baker
Eliot Makeham
as Organist
Parry Jones Jr.
as Arthur
Beresford Egan
as P. C. Ovenden
Esma Cannon
as Agnes
Anthony Holles
as Sergt. Bassett
Maude Lambert
as Miss Grainger
Wallace Bosco
as A. R. P. Worker
Charles Paton
as Ernie Brooks
Jane Millican
as Susanna Foster
Michael Golden
as Sergt. Smale
John Slater
as Sergt. Len
Graham Moffatt
as Sergt. Stuffy
Judith Furse
as Dorothy Bird
Barbara Waring
as Polly Finn
Jean Shepeard
as Gwladys Swinton
Margaret Scudamore
as Mrs Colpeper
Joss Ambler
as Police Inspector
H.F. Maltby
as Mr. Portal
Eric Maturin
as Geoffrey's Father
George Hall
as Police Superintendent (uncredited)
Michael Powell
Director
Writer
Emeric Pressburger
Producer
Erwin Hillier
Director of Photography
John Seabourne Sr.
Editor
Allan Gray
Original Music Composer
Alfred Junge
Production Design
George Paternoster
Boom Operator
Elliot Scott
Draughtsman
Third Assistant Director
Harold Hurdell
Jim Body
Clapper Loader
George Blackler
Makeup Artist
Ernest Gasser
Assistant Makeup Artist
Hilda Sheardown-Course
Hairstylist
George Maynard
Production Manager
Miss Johnstone
Set Dresser
Desmond Dew
Sound Recordist
C. C. Stevens
Alan Whatley
J.H. Kay
Alan Thorne
Sound Assistant
W. Percy Day
Modeling
Arthur Breton
Wardrobe Designer
Dorothy Edwards
Vocals