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A Matter of Life and Death

7.8 104 mins Romance   Fantasy   Drama   Comedy   1946
The Archers   J. Arthur Rank Organisation  
Director(s): Emeric Pressburger Michael Powell

Release Date: 15 Sun, Dec 1946

A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.

Casts of A Matter of Life and Death

David Niven

as Peter Carter

Kim Hunter

as June

Roger Livesey

as Doctor Reeves

Marius Goring

as Conductor 71

Robert Coote

as Bob Trubshawe

Kathleen Byron

as An Angel

Richard Attenborough

as An English Pilot

Bonar Colleano

as An American Pilot

Joan Maude

as Chief Recorder

Robert Atkins

as The Vicar

Edwin Max

as Dr. Mc.Ewen

Betty Potter

as Mrs. Tucker

Abraham Sofaer

as The Judge

Raymond Massey

as Abraham Farlan

Robert Arden

as GI Playing Snout (uncredited)

Robert Beatty

as US Crewman (uncredited)

Eric Cawthorne

as Goatherd (uncredited)

Tommy Duggan

as Patrick Aloyusius Mahoney (uncredited)

Leslie Dwyer

as ARP Warden (uncredited)

John Longden

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Lois Maxwell

as Actress (uncredited)

Wally Patch

as Civil Defence Stretcher Bearer (uncredited)

Laurence Payne

as Prosecuting Counsel (uncredited)

Robert Rietti

as Man in Stairway (uncredited)

Roger Snowdon

as James Monahan (uncredited)

Emile Stemmler

as British Serviceman (uncredited)

Wendy Thompson

as Nurse (uncredited)

Frederick Valk

as RAF Chaplain (uncredited)

Joan Verney

as Girl (uncredited)

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