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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.
A Matter of Life and Death (1946) A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court.
Jun 17, 2024 · A Matter of Life and Death is filmed in beautiful technicolor except for the other world scenes, which are in a pearly black and white, the reverse of The Wizard of Oz (1939). A Matter of Life and Death isn’t as moving as It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) or as charming as The Bishop’s Wife .
A Matter of Life and Death (GBR 1946, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger). Credit: BFI National Archive. Photographs of the Technicolor dye-transfer nitrate print from 1947 by Michelle Beutler, ERC Advanced Grant FilmColors. Contemporary Reception: Crowther, Bosley (1946): The Screen in Review.
When the heavenly conductor dispatched to Earth to retrieve him gets lost in the thick fog over the English Channel, Peter awakes having cheated death, and he quickly falls for June. From that point, he is suspended between Heaven and Earth—and between black-and-white and Technicolor.
Apr 13, 2021 · A wonderful, charming & fascinating story of love that blossoms between a British pilot & an American radio operator under the strangest of circumstances and the trials & tribulations their romance is put under in the celestial court, “A Matter of Life and Death” (also known as Stairway to Heaven) is a striking blend of warm romance ...
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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.
