- Country: UK
- Genres: Comedy
- Release: 1963-05-23
- Director: John Boulting , Roy Boulting
- Writers: Frank Harvey , John Boulting , Malcolm Muggeridge
- Language: English | Hindi | French | Italian
- Stars: Peter Sellers (I) (1925–1980) , Cecil Parker (1897–1971) , Isabel Jeans , Ian Carmichael , Bernard Miles , Brock Peters , Eric Sykes , Irene Handl , Miriam Karlin , Joan Miller
- Runtime: 105 min
- Awards: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award1 nomination total
- AKA: Cielos arriba (Spain) , Vilket himla liv (Sweden) , Himmlische Freuden , Na Terra Como no Céu (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Heavens Above! (United Kingdom) , Lassù qualcuno mi attende (Italy) , ヘブンズ・アバーブ (Japan) , Heavens Above! (United States of America) , Небеса над нами , Über den Wolken , Heavens Above! (Australia) , Som sendt til himmelen (Norway) , W niebie na mnie czekają (Poland) , O Pior dos Pecados (Brazil) , For himlens skyld (Denmark) , O amartolos (Greece) , Heavens Above! , Himmlische Freuden (Germany) , Taivas varjelkoon (Finland)
- Plot: In the upper crust town of Orbiston Parva which is ostensibly ruled by the wealthy Despard family who owns and operates the town's major employer, the local Tranquilax factory (the product a so-called restorative), the Church of England's Archdeacon Aspinall, who oversees among other churches Holy Trinity, recommends to widowed Lady Lucy Despard, the town's "matriarch", that they hire Reverend John Smallwood, whose family the Archdeacon has known most his life, to fill the currently vacant vicar position for Holy Trinity, Smallwood the type of man who would fit well into the town's upper crust sensibility. Through a clerical error, who the church hires instead is Reverend John Edward Smallwood, a totally different man in almost every respect beyond the job title of reverend, including being somewhat naive in mind. Through what is seen as his unconventional actions both from a church and Orbiston Parva community standpoint, such as hiring Matthew Robinson, a dustman and, gasp, black man, as the church's new warden, and taking into the vicarage the extremely large Smith family, who had been squatting on Tranquilax land now slated for factory expansion, and the adults of which who have decided living off the British welfare system more lucrative than actually working, Smallwood exposes the truly unchristian nature of the townsfolk as a collective, including members of this and other Christian denominational churches. While Smallwood does have a truly positive spiritual effect on some, his actions create an unintentional domino effect which leads to chaos as some cannot break with what they see as their traditions, however unchristian they are.
- IMDB:tt0057134
Heavens Above! Cast · · · ALL
John Boulting
Director
Roy Boulting
Director
Peter Sellers
(I)
(1925–1980)
The Rev. John Smallwood
Cecil Parker
(1897–1971)
Archdeacon Aspinall
Isabel Jeans
Lady Despard
Ian Carmichael
The Other Smallwood
Bernard Miles
Simpson
Brock Peters
Matthew Robinson
Eric Sykes
Harry Smith
Irene Handl
Rene Smith
Miriam Karlin
Winnie Smith
Joan Miller
Mrs Smith-Gould
William Hartnell
Major Fowler
Roy Kinnear
Fred Smith
Joan Hickson
Housewife
Eric Barker
Bank Manager
John Comer
Butcher
Kenneth Griffith
Rev. Owen Thomas
Mark Eden
Sir Geoffrey Despard
Basil Dignam
Prison Governor
Colin Gordon
Prime Minister
Geoffrey Hibbert
Council Official
Ludovic Kennedy
Himself
Harry Locke
Shop Steward
Derek Nimmo
DG Assistant
Conrad Phillips
Deaf Man
Miles Malleson
Bishop Rockeby