Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Starring: Richard Attenborough, David Niven, Kim Hunter, Kathleen Byron

When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But the officials in the other world realise their mistake and dispatch an angel to collect him.

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