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Heavens Above!

A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and prosperous country town. His belief in charity and forgiveness sets him at odds with the conservative and narrow-minded locals, and he soon creates social ructions by appointing a black dustman as his churchwarden, taking in a gypsy family, and persuading the local landowner to provide free food for the church to distribute free to the people of the town. When the congregation leaders realise the mistake and call for the Church of England to remove him, this turns out to be a very, very difficult issue - until one clergyman realises that a British project to send a man into space is in need of an astronaut...

1963 |1h 58m |  Comedy

Cast

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Peter Sellers

The Rev. John Smallwood

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Cecil Parker

Archdeacon Aspinall

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Isabel Jeans

Lady Despard

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Ian Carmichael

The Other Smallwood

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Bernard Miles

Simpson

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Brock Peters

Matthew Robinson

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Eric Sykes

Harry Smith

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Irene Handl

Rene Smith

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Miriam Karlin

Winnie Smith

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Joan Miller

Mrs Smith-Gould

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William Hartnell

Major Fowler

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Roy Kinnear

Fred Smith

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John Harvey

Wilson, Prison Officer

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Joan Hickson

Housewife

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Eric Barker

Bank Manager

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John Comer

Butcher

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Kenneth Griffith

Rev. Owen Thomas

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Mark Eden

Sir Geoffrey Despard

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Basil Dignam

Prison Governor

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Colin Gordon

Prime Minister

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Harry Locke

Shop Steward

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Derek Nimmo

DG Assistant

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Conrad Phillips

Deaf Man

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Miles Malleson

Bishop Rockeby

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Thorley Walters

Tranquilax Executive

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Marianne Stone

Miss Palmer

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Cardew Robinson

Tramp

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Gerald Sim

Store Manager

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Anna Wing

Housewife (uncredited)

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John Junkin

Reporter at Space Launch Site (uncredited)

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Rodney Bewes

Milkfloat Driver (uncredited)

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Louis Mansi

Man Buying Groceries (uncredited)

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Status

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Language

English

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