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Heavens Above!(Movie, 1963)

1h 58min | Genre: Comedy
Heavens Above!Rating: 3.1/5 (with 99 votes)
Heavens Above! is a 1963 British satirical comedy film directed and produced by John and Roy Boulting, and starring Peter Sellers. It was written by John Boulting and Frank Harvey, from an idea by Malcolm Muggeridge. ()
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About Heavens Above!

A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and prosperous country town. His belief in charity and forgiveness sets him at odds with the conservative and narrow-minded locals, and he soon creates social ructions by appointing a black dustman as his churchwarden, taking in a gypsy family, and persuading the local landowner to provide free food for the church to distribute free to the people of the town. When the congregation leaders realise the mistake and call for the Church of England to remove him, this turns out to be a very, very difficult issue - until one clergyman realises that a British project to send a man into space is in need of an astronaut...

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Additional Information

Production country: United Kingdom (UK)
Plays in: England
Made by: Romulus Films
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 5 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Italian (IT), Portuguese (PT)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 05/20/1963
Screenwriter: Frank Harvey
Director of Photography: Mutz Greenbaum
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Lassù qualcuno mi attende"
"Vilket himla liv"
Keywords: satire, vicar
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:119108, Added: 03/23/2018, Last updated: 03/29/2024