A Matter of Life and Death

Neither Heaven nor Earth could keep them apart!

When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But the officials in the other world realise their mistake and dispatch an angel to collect him.

Romance Fantasy Drama War 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))