A Matter of Life and Death (2017 restoration)

(AKA Stairway to Heaven) The film starred David Niven and Kim Hunter along with Raymond Massey and Richard Attenborough.  A British, all-time classic fantasy-romance film set in England during the Second World War.  The film was chosen for the first ever Royal Film Performance on 1 November 1946. 

British Air Force pilot Peter Carter (David Niven) is on his way home to England from a World War II bombing mission in a badly damaged aircraft. Before he bails out of the plane into the ocean, he contacts June (Kim Hunter), an Allied radio operator with whom he shares what he believes to be his final moments on Earth. But Peter survives, finds June and they fall in love. A problem arises when a divine messenger (Marius Goring) arrives to escort Peter to heaven to rectify his wrongful survival …