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Heaven Can Wait: Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. With Gene Tierney, Don Ameche, Charles Coburn, Marjorie Main. An old roué arrives in Hades to review his life with Satan, who will rule on his eligibility to enter the Underworld.
Heaven Can Wait is a 1943 Technicolor American supernatural comedy film produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. The screenplay was by Samson Raphaelson based on the play Birthday by Ladislaus Bus-Fekete. The music score was by Alfred Newman and the cinematography by Edward Cronjager.
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Heaven Can Wait. Spoiled playboy Henry van Cleve (Don Ameche) dies and arrives at the entrance to Hell, a final destination he is sure he deserves after living a life of profligacy. The devil...
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- Fantasy
An old roué arrives in Hades to review his life with Satan, who will rule on his eligibility to enter the Underworld. Henry Van Cleve presents himself at the gates of Hell only to find that he is closely vetted on his qualifications for entry.
Joe Pendleton (Warren Beatty), quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams, is killed in an auto accident. In the afterlife, Joe discovers that his guardian angel (Buck...
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- Comedy, Fantasy
- PG
Heaven Can Wait. Deceased playboy Henry Van Cleve (Don Ameche) presents himself to the outer offices of Hades, where he asks a bemused Satan for permission to enter through the gates of hell.
An old roué arrives in Hades to review his life with Satan, who will rule on his eligibility to enter the Underworld.
Jun 13, 2005 · Heaven Can Wait (1943) was different: with this film, Lubitsch achieved his greatest commercial success in the sound period and his first Oscar nomination for best director since The Love Parade (1929).
Mar 14, 2024 · While you might expect a movie about the balance of a man’s life being judged at the gates of Hell to be heavy existential stuff, Ernst Lubitsch’s Heaven Can Wait (1943) serves it up as a sparkling romantic comedy in the director’s quintessential style.
