A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH
"A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH" --- (1946) ---
SYNOPSIS: "British Air Force pilot Peter Carter is on his way home to England from a World War II bombing mission in a badly damaged aircraft. Before he bails out of the plane into the ocean, he contacts June, an Allied radio operator with whom he shares what he believes to be his final moments on Earth. But Peter survives, finds June and they fall in love. A problem arises when a divine messenger arrives to escort Peter to heaven to rectify his wrongful survival."
STARRING: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Marius Goring, Jack Cardiff, Richard Attenborough, Raymond Massey, John Longden, Roger Livesey and Kathleen Byron.
SCREENPLAY: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
DIRECTOR: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
CRITICAL RESPONSE & MISC.:
Upon its premiere in New York City, Bosley Crowther said "the delicate charm, the adult humor and visual virtuosity of this Michael Powell—Emeric Pressburger film render it indisputably the best of a batch of Christmas shows...the wit and agility of the producers, who also wrote and directed the job, is given range through the picture in countless delightful ways: in the use, for instance, of Technicolor to photograph the earthly scenes and sepia in which to vision the hygienic regions of the Beyond (so that the heavenly 'messenger', descending, is prompted to remark, 'Ah, how one is starved for Technicolor up there!'.)"
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