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A Matter of Life and Death was filmed at D&P Studios and Denham Studios in Denham, Buckinghamshire, England, and on locations in Devon and Surrey. The beach scene was shot at Saunton Sands in Devon, and the village seen in the camera obscura was Shere in Surrey.
Matter of Life and Death, A. Date: 1946. Director: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Production Company: The Archers. Stars: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Roger Livesey, Robert Coote, Bonar Colleano, Marius Goring. Location (s): Devon, Surrey. Region (s): South East M-Q, South West.
Dec 15, 2021 · Audaciously creative as well as infinitely romantic, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's film tells the story of World War Two British Air Force pilot Peter Carter (David Niven) falling in...
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A Matter of Life and Death is a 1946 British fantasy-romance film set in England during World War II.
David Niven plays Peter Carter, a young airman seemingly doomed before his time and trapped between life and death, between a Technicolor earth and a monochrome heaven. There have been other films that have dealt with heaven and earth but none possessed quite the ambition or visual flair of AMoLaD.
Sep 23, 2008 · Time Out says. You’d never guess, until perhaps the final, magnificent ‘trial’ scene, that Powell and Pressburger’s post-war film grew out of the Ministry of Information’s desire for a ...
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