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Release Date: 1963

Cast: Brock Peters, Mutz Greenbaum, Irene Handl, Ian Carmichael, Roy Kinnear, Peter Sellers, Eric Sykes, Isabel Jeans, Cecil Parker, Miles Malleson, Bernard Miles, William Hartnell ...MORE

Cast: Brock Peters, Mutz Greenbaum, Irene Handl, Ian Carmichael, Roy Kinnear, Peter Sellers, Eric Sykes, Isabel Jeans, Cecil Parker, Miles Malleson, Bernard Miles, William Hartnell, Miriam Karlin ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Comedy, Parody, Satire

Heavens Above! is a 1963 British satirical comedy film starring Peter Sellers, directed by John and Roy Boulting, who also co-wrote along with Frank Harvey, from an idea by Malcolm Muggeridge. It is in much the same vein as earlier collaborations between Sellers, Harvey and the Boultings, Private's Progress and I'm All Right Jack. The plot features Sellers as a naive but caring prison chaplain accidentally assigned as vicar to a small and prosperous country town of Orbiston Parva, in place of Ian Carmichael's upper-class cleric, with whom he shares a name. His belief in charity and... MORE

Heavens Above! is a 1963 British satirical comedy film starring Peter Sellers, directed by John and Roy Boulting, who also co-wrote along with Frank Harvey, from an idea by Malcolm Muggeridge. It is in much the same vein as earlier collaborations between Sellers, Harvey and the Boultings, Private's Progress and I'm All Right Jack. The plot features Sellers as a naive but caring prison chaplain accidentally assigned as vicar to a small and prosperous country town of Orbiston Parva, in place of Ian Carmichael's upper-class cleric, with whom he shares a name. His belief in charity and forgiveness sets him at odds with the locals, whose assertions that they are good, Christian people are in Smallwood's view belied by their behaviour and ideas. He creates social ructions by appointing a black dustman (Brock Peters) as his churchwarden, taking in a gypsy family, and persuading local landowner Lady Despard (Isabel Jeans) to provide free food for the church to distribute free to the people of the town. However, all his good works lead to trouble. The cast includes Steve Marriott who has an uncredited role in the film. Sellers' performance is generally held to be outstanding, in a meatier, LESS