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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp) and, ultimately, faces trial in heaven over whether he deserves to remain alive. The pilot makes it to shore with a splitting headache, meets and woos the dispatcher, is treated by a genial doctor (Roger Livesey, star of such classic Powell-Pressburger films as Niven plays an English pilot hurtling toward the water in a disabled plane, while Kim Hunter (later Marlon Brando's wife inĪ Streetcar Named Desire) plays the American dispatcher who, stationed in England, receives his mayday call and has a short, passionate conversation. The film was also, as Martin Scorsese notes in an introduction on the Criterion DVD, "a lament for the dead, all the young men who had been killed." The film was written and directed by the team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, who were assigned to make a good-neighbours film to ease tensions between allies Britain and the United States at the end of the Second World War. Death has a dominion, but it should really hire more competent help. 6, the hero (David Niven) remains alive, on Earth, because a foppish heavenly bureaucrat with a French accent (Marius Goring) didn't collect his soul when he should have. Stairway to Heaven, 1946), a marvellous British fantasy being released on Jan.
InĪ Matter of Life and Death (also known as Jordan (1941), the hero is snatched by heaven before his time is up and has to fight to receive a new body. Oh Heavenly Dog), or make life hell for a preternaturally wise moppet (
The Time of Their Lives), or gather evidence against bad guys while in the body of a dog ( They must learn to move chairs that people are about to sit on ( The movies have taught us that people who die but remain tethered to Earth experience a steep learning curve.
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