Here Comes Mr. Jordan
1941
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Here Comes Mr. Jordan is a 1941 American fantasy romantic comedy film directed by Alexander Hall, in which a boxer, mistakenly taken to Heaven before his time, is given a second chance back on Earth. It stars Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains, Evelyn Keyes, James Gleason, Edward Everett Horton, Rita Johnson, and John Emery .
- August 7, 1941
- Everett Riskin
Here Comes Mr. Jordan: Directed by Alexander Hall. With Robert Montgomery, Evelyn Keyes, Claude Rains, Rita Johnson. Boxer Joe Pendleton dies 50 years too soon due to a heavenly mistake, and is given a new life as a millionaire playboy.
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- Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
- Alexander Hall
- 1941-08-21
The angel's boss, Mr. Jordan (Claude Rains), sends Joe back to earth in the body of a murdered playboy to straighten out his life and resume his boxing career. Along the way, he meets an...
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- Robert Montgomery
- Alexander Hall
- Fantasy
Musical director. M. W. Stoloff. A sophisticated supernatural Hollywood comedy whose influence continues to be felt, Here Comes Mr. Jordan stars the eminently versatile Robert Montgomery as a working-class boxer and amateur aviator whose plane crashes in a freak accident.
- Joe Pendleton
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Summaries. Boxer Joe Pendleton dies 50 years too soon due to a heavenly mistake, and is given a new life as a millionaire playboy. Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body.
Here Comes Mr. Jordan is one of those rare Hollywood classics that hasn't dated and never fails to raise one's spirits. It's one of the first and best of the Films Blanc, the splinter genre of light comedy-dramas that imagine the universe to be governed by a fanciful Hereafter.
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Article History. Here Comes Mr. Jordan, American romantic comedy film, released in 1941, that involves a boxer who is taken to heaven before his time but is given a second chance at life. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.)
