- BFI identifier32011
- Date1963 (Copyright)
1963-09-08 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisDue to an error the wrong Reverend Smallwood is appointed to the living of Orbiston Parva, and his Christian charity causes chaos in the parish. The conscience of his patron, Lady Despard, is roused to the point of putting her entire fortune at his disposal. With this he distributes free food and totally disrupts the local economy, causing unemployment and riots. His superiors hastily transfer him to a remote island parish, where there is a nuclear station. Taunted about his religion by a terrified astronaut, he changes places with him, and is launched, singing hymns, into orbit. (Synopsis)
- Genre
- CategoryFiction
- Subject
- CreditsDirected by: John Boulting
Directed by: Roy Boulting
©/Production Company: Charter Film Productions
view all - CastPeter Sellers (the Reverend John Smallwood)
Cecil Parker (Archdeacon Aspinall)
Isabel Jeans (Lady Despard)
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Title
Heavens Above! (Original)
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- Digital documentsBFI Southbank Programme Notes September 2013
available to view in BFI Reuben Library - Scripts / DocumentsScript - Original story: Idea by Malcolm Muggeridge - SCR-9357
Ephemera: publicity - PBS-32011
Small press book combined with Wrong Arm of the Law Script in TEDDY DARVAS Collection. Small pressbook held.
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Work - 32011 - 1963 (Copyright)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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