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What today's audiences will find amazing is the sheer energy of its invention.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
A Matter of Life and Death
Neither Heaven nor Earth could keep them apart!
1946 · 1h 44m · PG
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Directed by
Michael Powell
,
Emeric Pressburger
Overview
When a young airman miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But the officials in the other world realise their mistake, and dispatch an angel to collect him.
Director and cast
- Michael Powell Director
- Emeric Pressburger Director
- David Niven as Peter Carter
- Kim Hunter as Kim
- Kathleen Byron as An Angel
- Richard Attenborough as An English Pilot
- Robert Coote as Bob
- Bonar Colleano as An American Pilot (also as Bonor Colleano)
- Joan Maude as Chief Recorder
- Marius Goring as Conductor 71
- Roger Livesey as Doctor Reeves
- Robert Atkins as The Vicar
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