Movie Description
Heavens Above!
(1963)Overview
A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and prosperous country town. His belief in charity and forgiveness sets him at odds with the conservative and narrow-minded locals, and he soon creates social ructions by appointing a black dustman as his churchwarden, taking in a gypsy family, and persuading the local landowner to provide free food for the church to distribute free to the people of the town. When the congregation leaders realise the mistake and call for the Church of England to remove him, this turns out to be a very, very difficult issue - until one clergyman realises that a British project to send a man into space is in need of an astronaut...
Featured Crew
- Director : John Boulting,Roy Boulting
- Producer : John Boulting,Roy Boulting
- Editor : Teddy Darvas
- Cast : Peter Sellers,Cecil Parker,Isabel Jeans,Ian Carmichael,Bernard Miles,Brock Peters,Eric Sykes,Irene Handl,Miriam Karlin,Joan Miller,William Hartnell,Roy Kinnear,John Harvey,Joan Hickson,Eric Barker,John Comer,Kenneth Griffith,Mark Eden,Basil Dignam,Colin Gordon,Geoffrey Hibbert,Ludovic Kennedy,Malcolm Muggeridge,Harry Locke,Derek Nimmo,Conrad Phillips,Miles Malleson,Nicholas Phipps,Thorley Walters,Marianne Stone,Cardew Robinson,Gerald Sim,Anna Wing,John Junkin,Rodney Bewes,Steve Marriott,Louis Mansi,Jack Carter
Cast
The Rev. John Smallwood
Archdeacon Aspinall
Lady Despard
The Other Smallwood
Simpson
Matthew Robinson
Harry Smith
Rene Smith
Winnie Smith
Mrs Smith-Gould
Major Fowler
Fred Smith
Wilson, Prison Officer
Housewife
Bank Manager
Butcher
Rev. Owen Thomas
Sir Geoffrey Despard
Prison Governor
Prime Minister
Council Official
Himself
Cleric
Shop Steward
DG Assistant
Deaf Man
Bishop Rockeby
Tranquilax Executive
Miss Palmer
Tramp
Store Manager
Housewife (uncredited)
Reporter at Space Launch Site (uncredited)
Milkfloat Driver (uncredited)
Jack (uncredited)
Man Buying Groceries (uncredited)
Launch Site Worker (uncredited)
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Facts
Original TitleHeavens Above!
Status Released
Release Information
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1963-05-20
Original LanguageEnglish
Runtime 01h 58m
Production CompaniesRomulus Films,Charter Film Productions
Genres
- Comedy
