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Heavens Above!( 1963)

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

Overview

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...

    Top Billed Cast

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      Peter Sellers

      The Rev. John Smallwood

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      Cecil Parker

      Archdeacon Aspinall

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      Isabel Jeans

      Lady Despard

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      Ian Carmichael

      The Other Smallwood

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      Bernard Miles

      Simpson

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      Brock Peters

      Matthew Robinson

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      Eric Sykes

      Harry Smith

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      Irene Handl

      Rene Smith

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      Miriam Karlin

      Winnie Smith

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      Joan Miller

      Mrs Smith-Gould

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      William Hartnell

      Major Fowler

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      Roy Kinnear

      Fred Smith

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      John Harvey

      Wilson, Prison Officer

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      Joan Hickson

      Housewife

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      Eric Barker

      Bank Manager

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      John Comer

      Butcher

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      Kenneth Griffith

      Rev. Owen Thomas

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      Mark Eden

      Sir Geoffrey Despard

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      Basil Dignam

      Prison Governor

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      Colin Gordon

      Prime Minister

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      Geoffrey Hibbert

      Council Official

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      Ludovic Kennedy

      Himself

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      Malcolm Muggeridge

      Cleric

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      Harry Locke

      Shop Steward

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      Derek Nimmo

      DG Assistant

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      Conrad Phillips

      Deaf Man

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      Miles Malleson

      Bishop Rockeby

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      Nicholas Phipps

      DG

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      Thorley Walters

      Tranquilax Executive

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      Marianne Stone

      Miss Palmer

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      Cardew Robinson

      Tramp

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      Gerald Sim

      Store Manager

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      Anna Wing

      Housewife (uncredited)

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      John Junkin

      Reporter at Space Launch Site (uncredited)

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      Rodney Bewes

      Milkfloat Driver (uncredited)

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      Steve Marriott

      Jack (uncredited)

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      Louis Mansi

      Man Buying Groceries (uncredited)

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      Jack Carter

      Launch Site Worker (uncredited)

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

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    Keywords

    • satire
    • vicar