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Stairway to Heaven
(1946)
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Robert Coote | ... |
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An English Pilot
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Bonar Colleano | ... |
An American Pilot
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Joan Maude | ... |
Chief Recorder
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Marius Goring | ... |
Conductor 71
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Roger Livesey | ... |
Doctor Reeves
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Robert Atkins | ... |
The Vicar
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Bob Roberts | ... |
Dr. Gaertler
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Edwin Max | ... |
Dr. Mc.Ewen
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Betty Potter | ... |
Mrs. Tucker
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Abraham Sofaer | ... |
The Judge
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Raymond Massey | ... | |
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Storyline
Returning to England from a bombing run in May 1945, flyer Peter Carter's plane is damaged and his parachute ripped to shreds. He has his crew bail out safely, but figures it is curtains for himself. He gets on the radio, and talks to June, a young American woman working for the USAAF, and they are quite moved by each other's voices. Then he jumps, preferring this to burning up with his plane. He wakes up in the surf. It was his time to die, but there was a mixup in heaven. They couldn't find him in all that fog. By the time his "Conductor" catches up with him 20 hours later, Peter and June have met and fallen in love. This changes everything, and since it happened through no fault of his own, Peter figures that heaven owes him a second chance. Heaven agrees to a trial to decide his fate. Written by John Oswalt <jao@jao.com>
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Budget:
£320,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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This is the story of two worlds, the one we know and another
which exists only in the mind...
of a young airman whose life and
imagination have been violently shaped by war.
[Pauses, then scrolls up to reveal]
Any resemblance to any other world, known or unknown, is
purely coincidental. See more »
(1842) (uncredited)
from "A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op.61"
Written by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Played on a record at the Shakespeare rehearsal See more »
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The lines Carter quotes to June as from "His Pilgrimage" by Sir Walter Raleigh and "To his Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell. See more »Goofs
Factual errors: When the prologue shows the Earth and moon, the sunlight is falling on them from different directions. Also, their motion is in the wrong perspective with that of the stars as the viewpoint moves; some stars seem to be farther away than the Earth, but closer than the moon. See more »Crazy Credits
Foreword (Scrolled up the screen at the start of the film):This is the story of two worlds, the one we know and another
which exists only in the mind...
of a young airman whose life and
imagination have been violently shaped by war.
[Pauses, then scrolls up to reveal]
Any resemblance to any other world, known or unknown, is
purely coincidental. See more »
Soundtracks
"Scherzo"(1842) (uncredited)
from "A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op.61"
Written by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Played on a record at the Shakespeare rehearsal See more »
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