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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...
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Roy Boulting profile
Roy Boulting

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John Boulting

Director

Cast

Peter Sellers profile
Peter Sellers

The Rev. John Smallwood

Cecil Parker profile
Cecil Parker

Archdeacon Aspinall

Isabel Jeans profile
Isabel Jeans

Lady Despard

Ian Carmichael profile
Ian Carmichael

The Other Smallwood

Bernard Miles profile
Bernard Miles

Simpson

Brock Peters profile
Brock Peters

Matthew Robinson

Eric Sykes profile
Eric Sykes

Harry Smith

Irene Handl profile
Irene Handl

Rene Smith

Miriam Karlin profile
Miriam Karlin

Winnie Smith

Joan Miller profile
Joan Miller

Mrs Smith-Gould

William Hartnell profile
William Hartnell

Major Fowler

Roy Kinnear profile
Roy Kinnear

Fred Smith

Peter Sellers profile
Peter Sellers

The Rev. John Smallwood

Cecil Parker profile
Cecil Parker

Archdeacon Aspinall

Isabel Jeans profile
Isabel Jeans

Lady Despard

Ian Carmichael profile
Ian Carmichael

The Other Smallwood

Bernard Miles profile
Bernard Miles

Simpson

Brock Peters profile
Brock Peters

Matthew Robinson

Eric Sykes profile
Eric Sykes

Harry Smith

Irene Handl profile
Irene Handl

Rene Smith

Miriam Karlin profile
Miriam Karlin

Winnie Smith

Joan Miller profile
Joan Miller

Mrs Smith-Gould

William Hartnell profile
William Hartnell

Major Fowler

Roy Kinnear profile
Roy Kinnear

Fred Smith

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Release Date

May 20, 1963

Original Language

English

Budget

$0.00

Production Company

Romulus Films logoCharter Film Productions logo

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