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The Archers (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's production company) weren't given permission to film inside Canterbury Cathedral. In any case, the stained-glass windows had been taken out because of the air raids, the aisles were filled with sandbags and earth to fight fires and to provide a soft landing for any masonry or sculptures that fell there. So the interior of the Cathedral was rebuilt in Denham Studio. They recreated it so well that Cathedral guides have been heard telling people that the film was shot in there.
When Peter enters the cathedral he looks up towards the roof. That is the only shot that was taken inside the real cathedral. Despite not getting permission to film in there, the production sneaked that one shot with a hand-held camera.
John Sweet was not a professional actor, but a real-life army sergeant stationed with the American forces in wartime England. He donated his salary from the film to the NAACP. This was his only feature film role; he died in 2011, at age 95.
"Gone with the Wind (1939)" author Margaret Mitchell was on her way to see a showing of this film with her husband when she was hit by a speeding car. She was knocked out, and died five days later, having never recovered consciousness.
On September 19, 2007, this film became the first ever to be projected to an audience in Canterbury Cathedral and was shown as a fund-raising event to pay for repairs to the cathedral caused by WW2 bomb damage.
"Thomas Colpeper, JP: Well, there are more ways than one of getting close to your ancestors. Follow the old road, and as you walk, think of them and of the old England. They climbed Chillingbourne Hill, just as you. They sweated and paused for breath just as you did today. And when you see the bluebells in the spring and the wild thyme, and the broom and the heather, you're only seeing what their eyes saw. You ford the same rivers. The same birds are singing. When you lie flat on your back and rest, and watch the clouds sailing, as I often do, you're so close to those other people, that you can hear the thrumming of the hoofs of their horses, and the sound of the wheels on the road, and their laughter and talk, and the music of the instruments they carried. And when I turn the bend in the road, where they too saw the towers of Canterbury, I feel I've only to turn my head, to see them on the road behind me."
"Sergt. Roczinsky: Hey, let's have some tea first, huh? Bob Johnson: That stuff? Sergt. Roczinsky: Sure; it's a habit, like marijuana. Bob Johnson: I'll take marijuana."
