Cinematography:
Jack CardiffComposer:
Allan GrayCast:
David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron, Richard Attenborough, Bonar Colleano, Joan Maude, Marius Goring, Roger Livesey, Edwin Max (more)VOD (1)
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Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's classic fantasy/romance A Matter of Life and Death stars David Niven as a WWII British pilot who miraculously survives a crash and goes on to fall for American WAC Kim Hunter. When a brain injury suffered in the accident leaves Niven near death, his spirit is summoned before a heavenly court where he pleads to be allowed to return to Earth. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
David Niven
UK
Best movies:
Murder by Death (1976)
The Brain (1969)
The Dawn Patrol (1938)
Kim Hunter
USA
Best movies:
Planet of the Apes (1968)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Robert Coote
UK
Best movies:
Othello (1952)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Kathleen Byron
UK
Best movies:
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
The Elephant Man (1980)
Perfect Strangers (2001) (series)
Richard Attenborough
UK
Best movies:
Jurassic Park (1993)
The Great Escape (1963)
Hamlet (1996)
Bonar Colleano
USA
Best movies:
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Fire Down Below (1957)
No Time to Die (1958)
Joan Maude
UK
Best movies:
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Marius Goring
UK
Best movies:
The Red Shoes (1948)
Holocaust (1978) (series)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Roger Livesey
UK
Best movies:
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
The League of Gentlemen (1960)
Edwin Max
USA
Best movies:
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Abraham Sofaer
Burma
Best movies:
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Quo Vadis (1951)
The Naked Jungle (1954)
Raymond Massey
Canada
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
East of Eden (1955)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Robert Arden
UK
Best movies:
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960)
Ragtime (1981)
Robert Beatty
Canada
Best movies:
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Where Eagles Dare (1968)
Jesus of Nazareth (1977) (TV movie)
Tommy Duggan
Ireland
Leslie Dwyer
UK
Best movies:
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Laughter in Paradise (1951)
Act of Love (1953)
John Longden
Best movies:
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Blackmail (1929)
Lois Maxwell
Canada
Best movies:
Goldfinger (1964)
From Russia with Love (1963)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Wally Patch
UK
Best movies:
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
High Treason (1929)
Laurence Payne
UK
Best movies:
Ben-Hur (1959)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
A Tale of Two Cities (1958)