Heavens Above!
(1963)

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

Released: 1963-05-20

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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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Peter Sellers

as The Rev. John Smallwood

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Cecil Parker

as Archdeacon Aspinall

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Isabel Jeans

as Lady Despard

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Ian Carmichael

as The Other Smallwood

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Brock Peters

as Matthew Robinson

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Eric Sykes

as Harry Smith

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Irene Handl

as Rene Smith

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Miriam Karlin

as Winnie Smith

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Joan Miller

as Mrs Smith-Gould

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William Hartnell

as Major Fowler

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Roy Kinnear

as Fred Smith

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John Harvey

as Wilson, Prison Officer (uncredited)

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Joan Hickson

as Housewife

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Eric Barker

as Bank Manager

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John Comer

as Butcher

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Kenneth Griffith

as Rev. Owen Thomas

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Mark Eden

as Sir Geoffrey Despard

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Basil Dignam

as Prison Governor

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Colin Gordon

as Prime Minister

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