Heavens Above! (1963)
Where 'I'm All Right Jack' left off…this takes off!
Starring Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, Isabel Jeans
Directed by John Boulting,Roy Boulting
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...
Runtime: 118 min.
Rating: 6.3
DVD
Languages: English
Countries: United Kingdom
Genres: Comedy
Keywords: satire,vicar
Cast
The Rev. John Smallwood
Archdeacon Aspinall
Lady Despard
The Other Smallwood
Simpson
Matthew Robinson
Harry Smith
Rene Smith
Winnie Smith
Mrs Smith-Gould
Major Fowler
Fred Smith
Wilson, Prison Officer (uncredited)
Housewife
Bank Manager
Butcher
Rev. Owen Thomas
Sir Geoffrey Despard
Prison Governor
Prime Minister
Council Official
Himself
Cleric
Shop Steward
DG Assistant
Deaf Man
Bishop Rockeby
Tranquilax Executive
Miss Palmer
Store Manager
Housewife
Tramp
Man Buying Groceries (uncredited)