"Everyone has heard of Canterbury if only because they murder archbishops there."
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Michael Powell (director)
Michael Latham Powell (30 September 1905 – 19 February 1990) was an English film director. Via his partnership with Emeric Pressburger and their production company "The Archers", the two men wrote, produced and directed a series of British films, including The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Canterbury Tale (1944), A Matter of Life and Death (US: Stairway to Heaven 1946), Black Narcissus (1947), The Red Shoes (1948), and The Tales of Hoffmann (1951). His film Peeping Tom (1960), now co
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