| Columbia Pictures | Release Date: August 21, 1941 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
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Critic Reviews
An absolute delight. [29 Dec 1996, p.78]
With Pendleton inhabiting three different bodies in the course of 93 minutes, this was quite an intricate storyline for a Hollywood comedy. But Alexander Hall (an unsung journeyman whose credits included Shirley Temple's Little Miss Marker) kept the action briskly accessible, even where Death was involved.
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It is a delightful film, both comic and touching, with a wonderfully camp performance from Edward Everett Horton as one of God's bureaucrats. [06 Sep 2009, p.30]
This likable heavenly fantasy comedy was a big '40s crowd-pleaser. [14 Aug 1998, p.M]
Lovely supporting performances from Rains, Horton (the anxiously over-zealous heavenly messenger who made the mistake in the first place) and Gleason (a hopelessly bemused fight manager); but the comedy of errors as Montgomery casts around for a new body in which to pursue his championship ambitions is rather uncomfortably tinged with the fey archness which so often came over Hollywood when envisaging an afterlife.
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There's too much metaphysical gabbing and a labored boy-gets-girl romance, but audiences loved this chunk of whimsey.
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