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The film was originally released in the United States under the title Stairway to Heaven, which derived from the film's most prominent special effect: a broad escalator linking Earth to the afterlife.
A Matter of Life and Death: Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. With David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron. A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.
“Stairway to Heaven" (1946) is one of the most audacious films ever made - in its grandiose vision, and in the cozy English way it's expressed.
Stairway to Heaven is a ravishing, creative, and exciting fantasy. Roger Livesey is tremendous as Niven's formidable doctor - and heavenly advocate. Typically for this team, the script...
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On May 2, 1945 during World War II, Englishman and Captain Peter David Carter is returning to England in a bomber on fire, without a parachute, and with his Sparks Bob dead. He contacts June, an American with the U.S. Army Air Forces on land and they start a conversation.
A Matter of Life and Death. After miraculously surviving a jump from his burning plane, RAF pilot Peter Carter (David Niven) encounters the American radio operator (Kim Hunter) to whom he has just delivered his dying wishes, and, face-to-face on a tranquil English beach, the pair fall in love.
A Matter of Life and Death (1946) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Aug 22, 2005 · The most elaborate fantasy film attempted by the British cinema since Alexander Korda's 1940 production of The Thief of Bagdad, A Matter of Life and Death (aka Stairway to Heaven, 1946) began production on the day that Japan surrendered to General MacArthur, bringing an end to the Pacific campaign. The timing was fortuitous for the resulting ...
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.
The film stars David Niven, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey, Kim Hunter and Marius Goring. The film was originally released in the United States under the title Stairway to Heaven, which derived from the film's most prominent special effect: a broad escalator linking Earth to the afterlife.
