A Matter of Life and Death

Neither Heaven nor Earth could keep them apart!

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.

Romance Fantasy Drama Comedy

David Niven

Kim Hunter

Roger Livesey

(Doctor Reeves)

Marius Goring

Robert Coote

(Bob Trubshawe)

Kathleen Byron

Richard Attenborough

(An English Pilot)

Bonar Colleano

(An American Pilot)

Joan Maude

(Chief Recorder)

Robert Atkins

Edwin Max

Betty Potter

Abraham Sofaer

Raymond Massey

(Abraham Farlan)

Robert Arden

(GI Playing Snout (uncredited))

Robert Beatty

(US Crewman (uncredited))

Eric Cawthorne

(Goatherd (uncredited))

Tommy Duggan

(Patrick Aloyusius Mahoney (uncredited))

Leslie Dwyer

(ARP Warden (uncredited))

John Longden

(Narrator (voice) (uncredited))

Lois Maxwell

(Actress (uncredited))

Wally Patch

(Civil Defence Stretcher Bearer (uncredited))

Laurence Payne

(Prosecuting Counsel (uncredited))

Robert Rietti

(Man in Stairway (uncredited))

Roger Snowdon

(James Monahan (uncredited))

Emile Stemmler

(British Serviceman (uncredited))

Wendy Thompson

(Nurse (uncredited))

Frederick Valk

(RAF Chaplain (uncredited))

Joan Verney

(Girl (uncredited))