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    Stairway to Heaven

    Movie

    Poster of the movie Stairway to Heaven
    1946     Fantasy drama    
    1h 44min
    Original titleA Matter of Life and Death
    Original lang.English, French
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    PG
    G
    Guide for parents:   Rated PG in the USA.
    PG
    Guide for parents:   Rated PG in the USA.
    G
    Guide for parents:   Rated PG in the USA.
    G
    Guide for parents:   Rated PG in the USA.
    G
    Guide for parents:   Rated PG in the USA.
    PG
    Guide for parents:   Rated PG in the USA.
    PG
    Guide for parents:   Rated PG in the USA.

    Moments before his plane crashes, RAF pilot Peter Carter (Niven) makes radio contact with an American operator named June. When the heavenly conductor dispatched to Earth to retrieve him gets lost in the thick fog over the English Channel, Peter awakes having cheated death, and he quickly falls for June. From that point, he is suspended between Heaven and Earth -- and between black-and-white and Technicolor. This was a breakthrough film for Powell, who remarked, "from then on, there was no more realism in films, only surrealism."

    Directed byMichael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
    Written byMichael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
    CompanyUniversal PicturesUniversal PicturesUniversal Pictures

    Starring

    David Niven
    Kim Hunter
    Richard Attenborough
    Raymond Massey
    Lois Maxwell
    Robert Coote
    Kathleen Byron
    Bonar Colleano
    Joan Maude
    Marius Goring
    Roger Livesey
    Robert Atkins
    Bob Roberts
    Edwin Max
    Betty Potter
    Abraham Sofaer
    Robert Arden
    Robert Beatty
    Tommy Duggan
    Erik
    John Huntley
    John Longden
    Howard Marshall
    Richard Nielson
    Wally Patch

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