Heavens Above!
Film

Heavens Above!

1963 · 118 min · ★ 6.2 · Dir. John Boulting

Where "I'm All Right Jack" left off…this takes off!

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...

Starring

Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers
The Rev. John Smallwood
Cecil Parker
Cecil Parker
Archdeacon Aspinall
Isabel Jeans
Isabel Jeans
Lady Despard
Ian Carmichael
Ian Carmichael
The Other Smallwood
Bernard Miles
Bernard Miles
Simpson
Brock Peters
Brock Peters
Matthew Robinson
Eric Sykes
Eric Sykes
Harry Smith
Irene Handl
Irene Handl
Rene Smith
Miriam Karlin
Miriam Karlin
Winnie Smith
Joan Miller
Mrs Smith-Gould
William Hartnell
William Hartnell
Major Fowler
Roy Kinnear
Roy Kinnear
Fred Smith
John Harvey
Wilson, Prison Officer (uncredited)
John Harvey
John Harvey
Wilson, Prison Officer (uncredited)
Joan Hickson
Joan Hickson
Housewife
Eric Barker
Eric Barker
Bank Manager
John Comer
John Comer
Butcher
Kenneth Griffith
Kenneth Griffith
Rev. Owen Thomas

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