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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: Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. With David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron. A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.
Dec 15, 2021 · Now celebrating its 75th anniversary, A Matter of Life and Death still finds new fans. Gregory Wakeman looks at how a wartime propaganda film became a cinematic classic.
- Gregory Wakeman
A Matter of Life and Death: Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. With David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron. A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Romance
- Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
- 1947-03
Apr 13, 2021 · Written & directed by Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger (together known as The Archers), A Matter of Life and Death takes the most personal of all human feelings, which is love and attempts to portray its transcending power on the cosmic scale.
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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 .
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A Matter of Life and Death (1946) Love is rescued from the jaws of the afterlife in the Archers’ delirious World War II air-pilot fantasia. Watch and discover. Sight and Sound.
