This film is about a war pilot who gets a call from a radio operator, and they end up falling in love. The war pilot's plane was about to crash and die, and he should of died but he didn't and the guide, who is like an angel is told by headquarters (heaven) that he needs to die, you know go back to how he should of died.
Its such a modern film, David Niven stars in it along with Kim Hunter, and he is just amazing in it. He's probably your grandmother's favorite actor, but he is seriously good in this part. He plays it with such Britishness I know that sounds weird, but I have a feeling if this was played by an American this would have been a very different film, where I believe it would have been more of a heroic guy, rather than a heroic gentleman. I also love the French Conductor as he is more of the comedy side of it, where when he leaves you have a stench of onions. He also asks, who do you want to take your place, and its just fantastic, as they discuss who's worth it and isn't.
Kim Hunter is also amazing, because they could of used someone like Elizabeth Taylor or Lauren Bacall I love those actresses, but they didn't they used someone her, and she was amazing. She wasn't a breathtaking beauty she was a very pretty girl, with a giant heart. Plus they have such good chemistry together, they look good aswell.
They used colour and black and white in a really nice way aswell, where they had for heaven headquarters they put it in black and white, then for back to earth it was in colour. Which isn't strange for 1930s-40s films as Wizard of Oz did it.
The dialogue though it amazing, I love the whole court case kinda style during the end. It is a love story evidently but its also, a political story aswell in a way, the poetic dialouge particularly from Niven is just beautiful, he speaks the words with such warmth. Its funny aswell, as this film came out in 1946, just a year after World War II ended. Its amazing how brilliantly they showed a War film, but at the same time it wasn't it was soo much more than that. It had real intelligence about humanity, and life it is a really deep film but it needs to be. Its just amazing how after a horrific time they're not gonna bitch or slag anyone off, or make it too in your face about war or about politics, or life, its just a very simple complex. Its just a very modern film for its time. So overall I give this film 10 peppermints out of 10!.
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