A Matter of Life and Death
Neither Heaven nor Earth could keep them apart!
7.8(474) 1946-12-15 104 minRomanceFantasyDramaComedy
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.
ScreenplayEmeric Pressburger
DirectorEmeric Pressburger
ScreenplayMichael Powell
DirectorMichael Powell
Original Music ComposerAllan Gray
ProducerMichael Powell
ProducerEmeric Pressburger
Cast & characters
David Niven
as Peter Carter
Kim Hunter
as June
Roger Livesey
as Doctor Reeves
Marius Goring
as Conductor 71
Robert Coote
as Bob Trubshawe
Kathleen Byron
as An Angel
Richard Attenborough
as An English Pilot
Bonar Colleano
as An American Pilot
Joan Maude
as Chief Recorder
Robert Atkins
as The Vicar
Edwin Max
as Dr. Mc.Ewen
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Betty Potter
as Mrs. Tucker
Abraham Sofaer
as The Judge
Raymond Massey
as Abraham Farlan
Robert Arden
as GI Playing Snout (uncredited)
Robert Beatty
as US Crewman (uncredited)
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Eric Cawthorne
as Goatherd (uncredited)
Tommy Duggan
as Patrick Aloyusius Mahoney (uncredited)
Leslie Dwyer
as ARP Warden (uncredited)
John Longden
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Lois Maxwell
as Actress (uncredited)
Wally Patch
as Civil Defence Stretcher Bearer (uncredited)
Laurence Payne
as Prosecuting Counsel (uncredited)
Robert Rietti
as Man in Stairway (uncredited)
