A Matter of Life and Death
Neither Heaven nor Earth could keep them apart!
7.7 / 10
104 minutes
1946-12-15
English
GB
Actors :
David Niven, Kim Hunter, Roger Livesey, Marius Goring, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron, Richard Attenborough, Bonar Colleano, Joan Maude, Robert Atkins, Edwin Max, Betty Potter, Abraham Sofaer, Raymond Massey, Robert Arden
Description
When a young RAF pilot 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.
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CinemaSerf
7/7/2022, 4:55:11 PM
Jack Cardiff shows off the cinematographers art to beautiful effect in this Powell and Pressberger tale of a WWII pilot (David Niven) who cheats death, falls in love (with Kim Hunter) and then argues before a heavenly court why he should not have to die (yet) after all. The story is tinged with humour and pathos and poses some fairly basic "human rights" questions. Marius Goring - "Conductor 71" i...