A Matter of Life and Death
United States 1946, 104 mins
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Starring: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron, Richard Attenborough
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Starring: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron, Richard Attenborough
During his flight back to England after a bombing raid in May 1945, Peter Carter's plane is damaged and his parachute ripped to shreds.
He has his crew bail out safely, but figures it is curtains for himself.
He gets on the radio, and talks to June, a young American woman working for the RAF, and they are quite moved by each other's voices.
Then he jumps, preferring this to burning up with his plane.
He wakes up in the surf.
It was his time to die, but there was a mix-up in heaven.
They couldn't find him in all that fog.
By the time his "Conductor" catches up with him 20 hours later, Peter and June have met and fallen in love.
This changes everything, and since it happened through no fault of his own, Peter figures that heaven owes him a second chance.
Heaven agrees to a trial to decide his fate.
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