Eagle-Lion Films
Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Criterion Collection)
Three people arrive by train at a small town near Canterbury during the war: a British Sergeant, an American GI who has gotten off at the wrong station by mistake, and a civilian girl who has volunteered to work on a local farm. The girl is immediately attacked by the "glue man": who pours a sticky substance on her hair then flees. They chase him long enough to see that he wears a uniform, then lose him in the town. All three spend the next few weeks trying to figure out the identity of the attacker. Clues lead to a local magistrate whom they confront on a train to Canterbury. He does not deny it, revealing his motive to be to make the girls less attractive to servicemen. In Canterbury, the three of them each receive "blessings", apparently for their good work at rooting out the glue man! An odd film, to say the least, that just seems plain silly at times, but perhaps is just very British and impenetrable to the rest of us.
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