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What today's audiences will find amazing is the sheer energy of its invention.
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A Matter of Life and Death
Neither Heaven nor Earth could keep them apart!
1946 · 1h 44m · PG
Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Directed by
Michael Powell
,
Emeric Pressburger
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A Matter of Life and Death
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Michael Powell Director
- Emeric Pressburger Director
- David Niven as Peter Carter
- Kim Hunter as Kim
- Roger Livesey as Doctor Reeves
- Marius Goring as Conductor 71
- Robert Coote as Bob
- Kathleen Byron as An Angel
- Bonar Colleano as An American Pilot (also as Bonor Colleano)
- Richard Attenborough as An English Pilot
- Joan Maude Cast
- Robert Atkins Cast
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