A Matter of Life and Death (1946) Reviews & Ratings

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A Matter of Life and Death reviews

A Matter of Life and Death holds a 7.7/10 average from 488 TMDB ratings.

Jack Cardiff shows off the cinematographers art to beautiful effect in this Powell and Pressberger tale of a WWII pilot (David Niven) who cheats death, falls in love (with Kim Hunter) and then argues before a heavenly court why he should not have to die (yet) after all. The story is tinged with humour and pathos and poses some fairly basic "human rights" questions. Marius Goring - "Conductor 71" is slightly menacing…
— CinemaSerf (7/10)

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.

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