A Matter of Life and Death
RomanceFantasyDramaComedy
7.8/10
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|104 min
Release Date: 1946-12-15
Overview - 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.
Production Companies
The ArchersJ. Arthur Rank Organisation
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CinemaSerf
7/10
Jack Cardiff shows off the cinematographers art to beautiful effect in this Powell and Pressberger tale of a WWII pilot (David Niven) who cheats death, falls in love (with Kim Hunter) and then argues before a heavenly court why he should not have to die (yet) after all. The story is tinged with humour and pathos and poses some fairly basic "human rights" questions. Marius Goring - "Conductor 71" i...
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