A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Sheila Sim: Alison Smith
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Quotes
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Prudence Honeywood : That's your room. You won't get much of a view I'm afraid.
Alison Smith : You should have seen the view from my room in London.
Prudence Honeywood : Was it a long street with every house a different sort of sadness in it?
Alison Smith : It was a long row of back gardens, and the tall, sad houses were all the same.
Prudence Honeywood : Ghastly in winter.
Alison Smith : Airless in summer. You seem to know them.
Prudence Honeywood : The only man who ever asked me to marry him wanted me to live in a house like that. I'm still a maid.
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Thomas Colpeper, JP : [hidden in the tall grass] Glorious, isn't it?
Alison Smith : [startled] Is anybody there?
Thomas Colpeper, JP : [standing] It's a real voice you heard. You're not dreaming.
Alison Smith : You know, just now I - I heard sounds.
Thomas Colpeper, JP : What sounds did you hear?
Alison Smith : Horses' hooves, voices, and a lute. Or an instrument like a lute. Did you hear anything?
Thomas Colpeper, JP : Those sounds come from inside, not outside. Then only when you're concentrating, when you believe strongly in something. Just now I was concentrating on who was coming up the hill to disturb me.
Alison Smith : Disturb you? At what?
Thomas Colpeper, JP : Breathing the air, smelling the earth, watching the clouds. Why don't you sit down?
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Alison Smith : [Sgt Johnson is helping her wash the glue out of her hair] Is it coming out?
Bob Johnson : Beg pardon, ma'am?
Alison Smith : Any better?
Bob Johnson : Well I've got considerable on me, so there must be less on you.
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Alison Smith : Did you hear the news about last night, Mr. Horton?
Jim Horton : There wasn't nothing on the wireless.
Alison Smith : No, I didn't mean that sort of news. I meant what happened here last night.
Ned Horton : We get all our local news at 6 o'clock, Miss.
Bob Johnson : You got a local newspaper?
Ned Horton : No. That's when the pub opens.
