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Heavens Above! (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards

Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2&4 )

Running Time:
115 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1963 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
John Boulting
Roy Boulting

Written By:
Frank Harvey
John Boulting

Malcolm Muggeridge

Actors:
Peter Sellers ..... The Reverend John Smallwood
Cecil Parker ..... Archdeacon Aspinall
Isabel Jeans ..... Lady Despard
Ian Carmichael ..... The Other Smallwood
Bernard Miles ..... Simpson
Brock Peters ..... Matthew
Eric Sykes ..... Harry Smith
Irene Handl ..... Rene Smith
Miriam Karlin ..... Winnie Smith
Joan Miller ..... Mrs. Smith-Gould
Miles Malleson ..... Rockeby
Eric Barker ..... Bank Manager
William Hartnell ..... Major Fowler
Roy Kinnear ..... Fred Smith
Joan Hickson ..... Housewife
Kenneth Griffith ..... Rev. Owen Thomas
Mark Eden ..... Sir Geoffrey Despard
John Comer ..... Butcher
Basil Dignam ..... Prisoner Governor
Franklyn Engelman ..... TV Commentator
Colin Gordon ..... Prime Minister
Geoffrey Hibbert ..... Council Official
Joan Heal ..... Disgruntled Housewife
Ludovic Kennedy ..... Ludovic Kennedy
Marjie Lawrence ..... Quarrelling Housewife
Harry Locke ..... Shop Steward
Henry B. Longhurst ..... Deaf Gentleman
Joan Matheson ..... Cast Member
Malcolm Muggeridge ..... Cleric
Derek Nimmo ..... Director-General's Assistant
Conrad Phillips ..... P.R.O.
Nicholas Phipps ..... Director-General
Cardew Robinson ..... Tramp
Gerald Sim ..... Self-Service Store Manager
Olive Sloane ..... Quarreling Housewife
Marianne Stone ..... Miss Palmer
Elsie Wagstaff ..... Lady on Parish Church Council
Thorley Walters ..... Tranquilax Executive
Ian Wilson ..... Salvation Army Major
George Woodbridge ..... Bishop
Josephine Woodford ..... Doris Smith
Ronald Adam ..... Cabinet Minister #1
Jack Armstrong ..... Townsman
Jack Arrow ..... Rotary Club Member / Townsman
Peter Avella ..... Townsman
Arnold Bell ..... Stockbroker Renshaw
Rodney Bewes ..... Milkfloat Driver
Tim Brinton ..... TV Commentator
Sydney Bromley ..... Tramp
Robin Burns ..... Townsman
Alf Casha ..... Townsman
Peggy Ann Clifford ..... Bit Part in Crowd Scene
Douglas Cooper ..... Bit Part
George Lane Cooper ..... Banner Holder
Maxwell Craig ..... Radio Reporter
George Curtis ..... Constable
Fred Davis ..... Policeman
Reggie de Beer ..... Townsman
Ed Devereaux ..... Communications Officer
Peter Evans ..... Townsman
Joe Farrar ..... Policeman
John Glyn-Jones ..... Professor
Nora Gordon ..... Old Lady in Garden
Hilda Green ..... Townswoman
Fred Griffiths ..... Angry Man in Crowd Scene

Synopsis:

In the upper crust town of Orbiston Parva which is ostensibly ruled by the wealthy Despard family who owns and operates the town's major employer, the local Tranquilax factory (the product a so-called restorative), the Church of England's Archdeacon Aspinall, who oversees among other churches Holy Trinity, recommends to widowed Lady Lucy Despard, the town's 'matriarch', that they hire Reverend John Smallwood, whose family the Archdeacon has known most his life, to fill the currently vacant vicar position for Holy Trinity, Smallwood the type of man who would fit well into the town's upper crust sensibility. Through a clerical error, who the church hires instead is Reverend John Edward Smallwood, a totally different man in almost every respect beyond the job title of reverend, including being somewhat naive in mind. Through what is seen as his unconventional actions both from a church and Orbiston Parva community standpoint, such as hiring Matthew Robinson, a dustman and, gasp, black man, as the church's new warden, and taking into the vicarage the extremely large Smith family, who had been squatting on Tranquilax land now slated for factory expansion, and the adults of which who have decided living off the British welfare system more lucrative than actually working, Smallwood exposes the truly unchristian nature of the townsfolk as a collective, including members of this and other Christian denominational churches. While Smallwood does have a truly positive spiritual effect on some, his actions create an unintentional domino effect which leads to chaos as some cannot break with what they see as their traditions, however unchristian they are.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 11 February, 2021.