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Heavens Above! is a British film of genre Comedy directed by John Boulting released in USA on 20 may 1963 with Peter Sellers
Heavens Above! (1963)
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Add to a movie listHeavens Above! is a 1963 British satirical comedy film starring Peter Sellers, directed by John and Roy Boulting, who also co-wrote along with Frank Harvey, from an idea by Malcolm Muggeridge. It is in much the same vein as the earlier collaboration between Sellers, Harvey and the Boultings, I'm All Right Jack.
Synopsis
The plot features Sellers as a naive but caring prison chaplain accidentally assigned as vicar to a small and prosperous country town of Orbiston Parva, in place of Ian Carmichael's upper class cleric, with whom he shares a name. His belief in charity and forgiveness sets him at odds with the locals, whose assertions that they are good, Christian people are in Smallwood's view belied by their behaviour and ideas. He creates social ructions by appointing a black dustman (Brock Peters) as his churchwarden, taking in a gypsy family, and persuading local landowner Lady Despard (Isabel Jeans) to provide free food for the church to distribute free to the people of the town. However, all his good works lead to trouble.Actors
Peter Sellers
(The Rev. John Smallwood)
Bernard Miles
(Simpson)
Cecil Parker
(Archdeacon Aspinall)
Isabel Jeans
(Lady Despard)
Ian Carmichael
(The Other Smallwood)
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