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A Matter of Life and Death
Film / 1946

A Matter of Life and Death

Directed by Michael PowellEmeric Pressburger
RomanceFantasyDrama

★ 7.7/10Audience rating

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.

The story

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.

Cast

David NivenPeter Carter Kim HunterJune Roger LiveseyDoctor Reeves Marius GoringConductor 71 Robert CooteBob Trubshawe Kathleen ByronAn Angel Richard AttenboroughAn English Pilot Bonar ColleanoAn American Pilot Joan MaudeChief Recorder Robert AtkinsThe Vicar Edwin MaxDr. Mc.Ewen Betty PotterMrs. Tucker
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Abraham SofaerThe Judge Raymond MasseyAbraham Farlan Robert ArdenGI Playing Snout (uncredited) Robert BeattyUS Crewman (uncredited) Eric CawthorneGoatherd (uncredited) Tommy DugganPatrick Aloyusius Mahoney (uncredited) Leslie DwyerARP Warden (uncredited) John LongdenNarrator (voice) (uncredited) Lois MaxwellActress (uncredited) Wally PatchCivil Defence Stretcher Bearer (uncredited) Laurence PayneProsecuting Counsel (uncredited) Robert RiettiMan in Stairway (uncredited) Roger SnowdonJames Monahan (uncredited) Emile StemmlerBritish Serviceman (uncredited) Wendy ThompsonNurse (uncredited) Frederick ValkRAF Chaplain (uncredited) Joan VerneyGirl (uncredited)

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