A Matter of Life and Death

A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.

• 
  Emeric Pressburger
• 
  Michael Powell
• 
  Parry Jones Jr.

• 
  David Niven
  Peter Carter
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  Kim Hunter
  June
• 
  Roger Livesey
  Doctor Reeves
• 
  Marius Goring
  Conductor 71
• 
  Robert Coote
  Bob Trubshawe
• 
  Kathleen Byron
  An Angel
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  Richard Attenborough
  An English Pilot
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  Bonar Colleano
  An American Pilot
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  Joan Maude
  Chief Recorder
• 
  Robert Atkins
  The Vicar
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  Edwin Max
  Dr. Mc.Ewen
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  Betty Potter
  Mrs. Tucker
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  Abraham Sofaer
  The Judge
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  Raymond Massey
  Abraham Farlan
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  Robert Arden
  GI Playing Snout (uncredited)
• 
  Robert Beatty
  US Crewman (uncredited)
• 
  Eric Cawthorne
  Goatherd (uncredited)
• 
  Tommy Duggan
  Patrick Aloyusius Mahoney (uncredited)
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  Leslie Dwyer
  ARP Warden (uncredited)
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  John Longden
  Narrator (voice) (uncredited)