Heavens Above!

A clerical error leads to the appointment of a left-leaning small-town priest to a rich village, where he immediately horrifies his snobby parishioners by appointing a dustman and a black man as vicar's wardens and throwing open the vicarage to the sprawling, disreputable Smith family, who have just been evicted from their caravan site. He converts the dowager aristocrat to works of absurd charity but he soon has the town and much of the country in uproar.

6.481

118 min

Cast

Peter Sellers

as The Rev. John Smallwood

Cecil Parker

as Archdeacon Aspinall

Isabel Jeans

as Lady Despard

Ian Carmichael

as The Other Smallwood

Bernard Miles

as Simpson

Brock Peters

as Matthew Robinson

Eric Sykes

as Harry Smith

Irene Handl

as Rene Smith

Miriam Karlin

as Winnie Smith

Joan Miller

as Mrs Smith-Gould

William Hartnell

as Major Fowler

Roy Kinnear

as Fred Smith

John Harvey

as Wilson, Prison Officer

Joan Hickson

as Housewife

Eric Barker

as Bank Manager

John Comer

as Butcher

Kenneth Griffith

as Rev. Owen Thomas

Mark Eden

as Sir Geoffrey Despard

Basil Dignam

as Prison Governor

Colin Gordon

as Prime Minister

Geoffrey Hibbert

as Council Official

Ludovic Kennedy

as Himself

Malcolm Muggeridge

as Cleric

Harry Locke

as Shop Steward

Derek Nimmo

as DG Assistant

Conrad Phillips

as Deaf Man

Miles Malleson

as Bishop Rockeby

Nicholas Phipps

as DG

Thorley Walters

as Tranquilax Executive

Marianne Stone

as Miss Palmer

Cardew Robinson

as Tramp

Gerald Sim

as Store Manager

Anna Wing

as Housewife (uncredited)

John Junkin

as Reporter at Space Launch Site (uncredited)

Rodney Bewes

as Milkfloat Driver (uncredited)

Steve Marriott

as Jack (uncredited)

John Louis Mansi

as Man Buying Groceries (uncredited)

Jack Carter

as Launch Site Worker (uncredited)

Director

John Boulting

Roy Boulting