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...
Release Date
May 20, 1963Runtime
118 minGenres
ComedyDirected by
John Boulting, Roy BoultingScreenplay by
Frank Harvey, John BoultingLanguage
EnglishBudget
$0Revenue
$0Status
Released
Cast
Peter Sellers
The Rev. John Smallwood
Cecil Parker
Archdeacon Aspinall
Isabel Jeans
Lady Despard
Ian Carmichael
The Other Smallwood
Bernard Miles
Simpson
Brock Peters
Matthew Robinson
Eric Sykes
Harry Smith
Irene Handl
Rene Smith
Miriam Karlin
Winnie Smith
Joan Miller
Mrs Smith-Gould
William Hartnell
Major Fowler
Roy Kinnear
Fred Smith
John Harvey
Wilson, Prison Officer (uncredited)
Joan Hickson
Housewife
Eric Barker
Bank Manager
John Comer
Butcher
Kenneth Griffith
Rev. Owen Thomas
Mark Eden
Sir Geoffrey Despard
Basil Dignam
Prison Governor
Colin Gordon
Prime Minister
Derek Nimmo
DG Assistant
Conrad Phillips
Deaf Man
Miles Malleson
Bishop Rockeby
Nicholas Phipps
DG
Thorley Walters
Tranquilax Executive
Marianne Stone
Miss Palmer
Gerald Sim
Store Manager
Anna Wing
Housewife
John Junkin
Rodney Bewes
Cardew Robinson
Tramp
Louis Mansi
Man Buying Groceries (uncredited)Images
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