Movie
Heavens Above!
Comedy film with a runtime of 105 minutes, released in 1963. Presented in English.
At a Glance
Synopsis
This satirical comedy takes aim at the sacred cow of organized religion, which is thoroughly and gleefully gored. Reverend Smallwood (Peter Sellers) is the fundamentalist minister assigned by mistake to a wealthy parish. He shocks the congregation when he gives charity and shelter to wandering gypsies, appoints a black man as his assistant, and converts the Lady Despard into his spiritual flock of followers. The Despard family holds the Tranquilax medicine fortunes, and the stockholders revolt when Lady Despard donates a mansion to house some skid row bums. The Reverend's activities cause a ripple affect throughout the community, and the country's economy is jeopardized by plummeting Tranquil stock prices. When the townsfolk are on the verge of running the Rev out of town, the Church and State appoint him Bishop of Outer Space.
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Cast
- Peter Sellers
- Cecil Parker
- Isabel Jeans
- Eric Sykes
- Bernard Miles
- Brock Peters
- Ian Carmichael
- Irene Handl
- Miriam Karlin
- Joan Miller
- Eric Barker
- Roy Kinnear
- Kenneth Griffith
- Miles Malleson
- William Hartnell
- Joan Hickson
- Harry Locke
- Nicholas Phipps
- Thorley Walters
- George Woodbridge
- Basil Dignam
- Colin Gordon
- Joan Heal
- Malcolm Muggeridge
- Conrad Phillips
- Cardew Robinson
- Billy Milton
- Howard Pays
- Mark Eden
- John Comer
- Franklyn Engelmann
- Tim Brinton
- Ludovic Kennedy
- Geoffrey Hibbert
- Marjie Lawrence
- Olive Sloane
- Henry Longhurst
- Elsie Wagstaffe
- Ian Wilson
- Josephine Woodford
- Marianne Stone
- Drewe Henley
- John Harvey
- Albert Witherick
- Teddy Darvas
- David Ffolkes
- John Hollingsworth
- Stuart Freeborn
- Gerry Fletcher
- Mutz Greenbaum
- John Boulting
- Frank Harvey Jr.
