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Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, War
Release Year: 1946
Country: UK
Runtime: 104
Rating: 6.9 (0)
Languages: English, French
Director: Michael PowellEmeric Pressburger
Sound: Mono
Taglines:Neither Heaven nor Earth could keep them apart! The Greatest Experience In The Emotion Of Love! THE NEAREST THING TO HEAVEN! (print ad - all caps) A NEW EXPERIENCE! (print ad - all caps) The Greatest Adventure a Man Ever Lived! The Most Wonderfully Romantic Fantasy on Earth ... or Anywhere Else A motion picture beyond all wonder!
Writing by: Michael Powell - (written by) and
Emeric Pressburger - (written by)
Produced by: George R. Busby - assistant producer (as George Busby)
Michael Powell - producer
Emeric Pressburger - producer
Cast: David Niven - Peter Carter
Kim Hunter - June
Robert Coote - Bob Trubshawe
Kathleen Byron - An Angel
Richard Attenborough - An English Pilot
Bonar Colleano - An American Pilot (as Bonor Colleano in end credits)
Joan Maude - Chief Recorder
Marius Goring - Conductor 71
Roger Livesey - Doctor Frank Reeves
Robert Atkins - The Vicar
Bob Roberts - Dr. Gaertler
Music: Allan Gray
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court.
Plot: Returning to England from a bombing run in May 1945, flyer Peter Carters plane is damaged and his parachute ripped to shreds. He has his crew bail out safely, but figures it is curtains for himself. He gets on the radio, and talks to June, a young American woman working for the RAF, and they are quite moved by each others voices. Then he jumps, preferring this to burning up with his plane. He wakes up in the surf. It was his time to die, but there was a mixup in heaven. They couldnt find him in all that fog. By the time his "Conductor" catches up with him 20 hours later, Peter and June have met and fallen in love. This changes everything, and since it happened through no fault of his own, Peter figures that heaven owes him a second chance. Heaven agrees to a trial to decide his fate.
Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Foreword (Scrolled up the screen at the start of the film): This is the story of two worlds, the one we know and another which exists only in the mind... of a young airman whose life and imagination have been violently shaped by war. Any resemblance to any other world, known or unknown, is purely coincidental.
Goofs: We know about 8 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Factual errors: The prologue narrator refers to stars and regions of gas between them, then says that "the starlight makes the gas transparent, and where there are no stars, it appears as dark obscuring clouds." Transparency is actually caused not by starlight but by the absence of dust; starlight will either have no effect on the appearance of gas, or will cause it to be illuminated or perhaps to fluoresce. Dark obscuring clouds are those that contain dust and are not illuminated.
Trivia: There are 13 entries in the trivia list - like these:
All Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, War
Release Year: 1946
Country: UK
Runtime: 104
Rating: 6.9 (0)
Languages: English, French
Director: Michael PowellEmeric Pressburger
Sound: Mono
Taglines:
Writing by: Michael Powell - (written by) and
Emeric Pressburger - (written by)
Produced by: George R. Busby - assistant producer (as George Busby)
Michael Powell - producer
Emeric Pressburger - producer
Cast: David Niven - Peter Carter
Kim Hunter - June
Robert Coote - Bob Trubshawe
Kathleen Byron - An Angel
Richard Attenborough - An English Pilot
Bonar Colleano - An American Pilot (as Bonor Colleano in end credits)
Joan Maude - Chief Recorder
Marius Goring - Conductor 71
Roger Livesey - Doctor Frank Reeves
Robert Atkins - The Vicar
Bob Roberts - Dr. Gaertler
Music: Allan Gray
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court.
Plot: Returning to England from a bombing run in May 1945, flyer Peter Carters plane is damaged and his parachute ripped to shreds. He has his crew bail out safely, but figures it is curtains for himself. He gets on the radio, and talks to June, a young American woman working for the RAF, and they are quite moved by each others voices. Then he jumps, preferring this to burning up with his plane. He wakes up in the surf. It was his time to die, but there was a mixup in heaven. They couldnt find him in all that fog. By the time his "Conductor" catches up with him 20 hours later, Peter and June have met and fallen in love. This changes everything, and since it happened through no fault of his own, Peter figures that heaven owes him a second chance. Heaven agrees to a trial to decide his fate.
Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Foreword (Scrolled up the screen at the start of the film): This is the story of two worlds, the one we know and another which exists only in the mind... of a young airman whose life and imagination have been violently shaped by war. Any resemblance to any other world, known or unknown, is purely coincidental.
Goofs: We know about 8 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Factual errors: The prologue narrator refers to stars and regions of gas between them, then says that "the starlight makes the gas transparent, and where there are no stars, it appears as dark obscuring clouds." Transparency is actually caused not by starlight but by the absence of dust; starlight will either have no effect on the appearance of gas, or will cause it to be illuminated or perhaps to fluoresce. Dark obscuring clouds are those that contain dust and are not illuminated.
Trivia: There are 13 entries in the trivia list - like these:
- For the table tennis scene, Kim Hunter and Roger Livesey were trained by Alan Brooke, the British champion who played many games with International Champion Victor Barna. During a visit to Denham Studios the two champions played a couple of games before an admiring audience of artists and technicians. For luck, Hunter borrowed one of Brookes tournament bats for her film game.
- Betty Field was one of the many American actresses considered for the part of June. But Powell and Pressburger never actually got to see her.
- The huge escalator linking this World with the Other, called "Operation Ethel" by the firm of engineers who constructed her under the aegis of the London Passenger Transport Board, took three months to make and cost 3,000 pounds (in 1946). "Ethel" had 106 steps each 20 feet wide and was driven by a 12 h.p. engine. The full shot was completed by hanging miniatures.
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