About this title: Also known as Stairway to Heaven, A Matter of Life and Death is the remarkable British fantasy film that became the surprise hit of 1946. David Niven stars as Peter Carter, a World War II RAF pilot who is forced to bail out of his crippled plane without a parachute. He wakes up to find he has landed on Earth utterly unharmed...which wasn't supposed to happen according to the rules of Heaven. A celestial court argues over whether or not to claim Carter's life or to let him survive to wed his American sweetheart (Kim Hunter). During an operation, in which Carter hovers between life and death, ...
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Format: VIDEO: NTSC(USA)
Studio: 043396223936; Columbia Tristar Home Video, USA
Date: 1997
UPC:043396223936
Description: VG+/VG+ 104 min. VHS videotape. Color. 1946. Kim Hunter. Columbia Classics series. read more
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Description: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron, Richard Attenborough, Marius Goring, Raymond Massey, Lois Maxwell... New in new packaging. 1946 Run time: 100. A stimulating, thought provoking story of a British wartime aviator who cheats death, and after falling in love with an American nurse must argue for his life before a celestial court. Written and produced by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Includes Technicolor sequence. read more
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Description: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron, Richard Attenborough, Marius Goring, Raymond Massey, Lois Maxwell... New in new packaging. 1946 Run time: 100. A stimulating, thought provoking story of a British wartime aviator who cheats death, and after falling in love with an American nurse must argue for his life before a celestial court. Written and produced by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Includes Technicolor sequence. read more
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Description: VHS in hard case w/artwork, near Fine copy! FREE USPS TRACKING NUMBER! ITV DVD, 1995. read more
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"Fantasies in which the main character or characters stepped outside outside reality for a brief period used to be much more common than now. This film has the premise that the hero (David Niven) should have died but didn't, due to climatic conditions interfering with the heavenly collector. When the mistake is discovered, the collector is sent to get him. However, he doesn't want to go, having met the girl of his dreams in the interim. Niven files an appeal and a celestial tribunal is assembled. Interestingly, while the audience is willing to accept the reality of the fantasy, the film contrasts Niven's experience, i.e. talking to angels, moving back and forth between this world and the next, etc., with the idea that it may all be a psychotic break caused by a brain condition. The film is well written and well acted with a great deal of dramatic tension. It was made immediately following WW II and makes much of the concept of a new world brotherhood sweeping away the detritus of old world hatreds and fears. It is old fashioned and perhaps corny when viewed from the point of view of modern sophistication and cynicism, but if viewed with the hope and optimism held by the people who survived that conflict, It is a film of great beauty."
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