Jun 12th
Heaven Can Wait**                

(US 1943)

Twentieth Century Fox. 112m.

Upon his death an elderly playboy reports his love for pretty girls to Hell, which is where he assumes he belongs.
Lubitsch skirts round the sex with sly delight, in several wittily performed scenes and some lovely turn of the 20th century settings, and also some quite convincing elderly make-up.

Written by: Samson Raphaelson, based on the play "Birthday" by Lazlo Bus-Fakete.
Producer/Director: Ernst Lubitsch.
Starring: Don Ameche, Gene Tierney, Charles Coburn, Laird Cregar (as Satan), Spring Byington, Louis Calhern, Marjorie Main, Eugene Pallette, Allen Joslyn, Signe Hasso.
Photography: Edward Cronjager.
Music: Alfred Newman.
Art Direction: James Basevi, Leland Fuller.


Preceded by:
Scrubber
(GB 2012. Label Pictures. 21m.; A young mother wanders through the fields into the woods looking for sex.; w, d: Romola Garai; s: Amanda Hale, Honor Kneafsey, Michelle Duncan.)

 

HEAVEN CAN WAIT (1943). Interesting to compare the ageing of Don Ameche with the real thing 40 years later.