A matter of life and death
DVD - 2018
After miraculously surviving a jump from his burning plane, RAF pilot Peter Carter encounters the American radio operator to whom he has just delivered his dying wishes and, face-to-face on a tranquil English beach, the pair fall in love. When a messenger from the afterlife arrives to correct the clerical error that spared his life, Peter must mount a fierce defense for his right to stay on earth.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Feature films
Romantic comedy films
Fantasy films
Fiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[New York, New York] :
The Criterion Collection
[2018]
- Language
- English
- Other Authors
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- Edition
- Full screen. Two-DVD special edition
- Item Description
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1946.
Special features: audio commentary from 2009 featuring film scholar Ian Christie; new interview with editor Thelma Schoonmaker, director Michael Powell's widow; new interview with film historian Craig Barron on the film's visual effects and production design; interview from 2009 with filmmaker Martin Scorsese; The colour merchant, a 1998 short film by Craig McCall featuring cinematographer Jack Cardiff; essay by critic Stephanie Zacharek. - Physical Description
- 2 videodiscs (104 min.) : sound, color, black and white; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD.
- Audience
- MPAA rating: PG.
- Production Credits
- Music, Allan Gray ; cinematography, Jack Cardiff ; editor, Reginald Mills.
- ISBN
- 9781681434841