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    Heavens Above! (1963)

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    Due to a clerical error, the wrong Reverend Smallwood (Peter Sellers) – a former prison chaplain with a strong Brummie accent and socialist leanings – is appointed to a parish in the small affluent town of Orbiston Parva, whose main industry is Tranquillax – a pep pill cum laxative.

    Reverend Smallwood upsets the conservative locals by appointing a black bin man (Brock Peters) as his new Churchwarden. Then he gives shelter in the vicarage to a pack of scurrilous gypsies led by Harry (Eric Sykes) and Rene Smith (Irene Handl) who proceed to rob him blind.

    The last straw for the community comes when he persuades local rich woman Lady Despard (Isabel Jeans) to use her wealth to start a new charity called the ‘Good Neighbour Fellowship’, which involves giving free food to anyone who wants it.

    The charity is popular at first but leads to shop closures on a massive scale. When Lady Despard’s son (Mark Eden) puts a stop to the scheme, the angry townspeople rounds on Smallwood.

    Future Small Faces frontman Steve Marriott plays Eric Sykes’s Eldest son.

    A Boulting Brothers Production for British Lion, filmed at Shepperton Studios.

    Reverend John Smallwood
    Peter Sellers
    Archdeacon Aspinall
    Cecil Parker
    Lady Despard
    Isabel Jeans
    The Other Smallwood
    Ian Carmichael
    Simpson
    Bernard Miles
    Matthew
    Brock Peters
    Harry Smith
    Eric Sykes
    Rene Smith
    Irene Handl
    Winnie Smith
    Miriam Karlin
    Mrs Smith-Gould
    Joan Miller
    Rockeby
    Miles Malleson
    Bank Manager
    Eric Barker
    Major Fowler
    William Hartnell
    Fred Smith
    Roy Kinnear
    Housewife
    Joan Hickson

    Director
    John Boulting
    Roy Boulting

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