What is Gone to Earth / A Matter of Life and Death about?

GONE TO EARTH, 1950, Disney, 110 min. Dir, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Jennifer Jones is a country girl, who lives surrounded by magic, superstition and wild forest animals. David Farrar (BLACK NARCISSUS) is the squire bewitched by Jones’ charms. Released in a shorter version in the U.S. as THE WILD HEART, this is the restored British version! A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (aka STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN), 1946, Columbia (Sony), 104 min. Dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. WWII pilot, David Niven, pleads his case in Heaven, claiming he was not meant to die and should be allowed to return to lovely Kim Hunter on earth. Roger Livesey co-stars as Niven’s solicitor on the astral plane.

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What is Gone to Earth / A Matter of Life and Death about?: GONE TO EARTH, 1950, Disney, 110 min. Dir, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Jennifer Jones is a country girl, who lives surrounded by magic, superstition and wild forest animals. David Farrar (BLACK NARCISSUS) is the squire bewitched by Jones’ charms. Released in a shorter version in the U.S. as THE WILD HEART, this is the restored British version!

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (aka STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN), 1946, Columbia (Sony), 104 min. Dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. WWII pilot, David Niven, pleads his case in Heaven, claiming he was not meant to die and should be allowed to return to lovely Kim Hunter on earth. Roger Livesey co-stars as Niven’s solicitor on the astral plane.