
Heavens Above! (1963)
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...
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Additional Info
Budget | $0.00 |
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Revenue | $0.00 |
Original Language | en |
Popularity | 4.033 |
Directed By
John Boulting
Roy Boulting
Crew
John Boulting
Roy Boulting
Teddy Darvas
Roy Boulting
John Boulting
Mutz Greenbaum
Frank Harvey
John Boulting
Richard Rodney Bennett
Laurie Ridley
TOP CAST

Peter Sellers
The Rev. John Smallwood

Cecil Parker
Archdeacon Aspinall

Isabel Jeans
Lady Despard

Ian Carmichael
The Other Smallwood

Bernard Miles
Simpson

Brock Peters
Matthew Robinson

Eric Sykes
Harry Smith

Irene Handl
Rene Smith

Miriam Karlin
Winnie Smith

Joan Miller
Mrs Smith-Gould

William Hartnell
Major Fowler

Roy Kinnear
Fred Smith

John Harvey
Wilson, Prison Officer

Joan Hickson
Housewife

Eric Barker
Bank Manager

John Comer
Butcher

Kenneth Griffith
Rev. Owen Thomas

Mark Eden
Sir Geoffrey Despard

Basil Dignam
Prison Governor

Colin Gordon
Prime Minister
Geoffrey Hibbert
Council Official
Ludovic Kennedy
Himself
Malcolm Muggeridge
Cleric

Harry Locke
Shop Steward

Derek Nimmo
DG Assistant

Conrad Phillips
Deaf Man

Miles Malleson
Bishop Rockeby

Thorley Walters
Tranquilax Executive

Marianne Stone
Miss Palmer

Cardew Robinson
Tramp

Gerald Sim
Store Manager

Anna Wing
Housewife (uncredited)

John Junkin
Reporter at Space Launch Site (uncredited)

Rodney Bewes
Milkfloat Driver (uncredited)
Steve Marriott
Jack (uncredited)

Louis Mansi
Man Buying Groceries (uncredited)
Jack Carter
Launch Site Worker (uncredited)