Director :   Michael Powell,   Emeric Pressburger
Producer :   Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

Starring :   David Niven, Kim Hunter, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey, Marius Goring, Richard Attenborough

Censor Rating :   NA

Duration :   104 min

Year of Production :   1946

Genre :   Feature Film

Category :   Classics

 

Synopsis :   

A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court. Returning to England from a bombing run in May 1945, flyer Peter Carter's plane is damaged and his parachute ripped to shreds. He has his crew bail out safely, but figures it is curtains for himself. He gets on the radio, and talks to June, a young American woman working for the RAF, and they are quite moved by each other's voices. Then he jumps, preferring this to burning up with his plane. He wakes up in the surf. It was his time to die, but there was a mixup in heaven. They couldn't find him in all that fog. By the time his "Conductor" catches up with him 20 hours later, Peter and June have met and fallen in love. This changes everything, and since it happened through no fault of his own, Peter figures that heaven owes him a second chance. Heaven agrees to a trial to decide his fate.

Awards :   

* Bodil Awards: Best European Film, 1948, Best Director