Heavens Above!

Overview

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.

Directed by John Boulting, Roy Boulting

Top cast

Peter Sellers

The Rev. John Smallwood

Cecil Parker

Archdeacon Aspinall

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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

John Harvey

Wilson, Prison Officer

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

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