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Heavens Above!

Where "I'm All Right Jack" left off…this takes off!

Genres

Comedy

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...

Details

Budget

$0

Revenue

$0

Runtime

118 min

Release Date

1963-05-20

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Vote Count

23

Vote Average

6.3

Cast
Meet the talented actors who bring the movie to life.

Peter Sellers

The Rev. John Smallwood

Cecil Parker

Archdeacon Aspinall

Isabel Jeans

Lady Despard

Ian Carmichael

The Other Smallwood

Bernard Miles

Simpson

Brock Peters

Matthew Robinson

Eric Sykes

Harry Smith

Irene Handl

Rene Smith

Miriam Karlin

Winnie Smith

Joan Miller

Mrs Smith-Gould

William Hartnell

Major Fowler

Roy Kinnear

Fred Smith

John Harvey

Wilson, Prison Officer

Joan Hickson

Housewife

Eric Barker

Bank Manager

John Comer

Butcher

Kenneth Griffith

Rev. Owen Thomas

Mark Eden

Sir Geoffrey Despard

Basil Dignam

Prison Governor

Colin Gordon

Prime Minister

Geoffrey Hibbert

Council Official

Ludovic Kennedy

Himself

Malcolm Muggeridge

Cleric

Harry Locke

Shop Steward

Derek Nimmo

DG Assistant

Conrad Phillips

Deaf Man

Miles Malleson

Bishop Rockeby

Nicholas Phipps

DG

Thorley Walters

Tranquilax Executive

Marianne Stone

Miss Palmer

Cardew Robinson

Tramp

Gerald Sim

Store Manager

Anna Wing

Housewife (uncredited)

John Junkin

Reporter at Space Launch Site (uncredited)

Rodney Bewes

Milkfloat Driver (uncredited)

Steve Marriott

Jack (uncredited)

Louis Mansi

Man Buying Groceries (uncredited)

Jack Carter

Launch Site Worker (uncredited)

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