Here Comes Mr. Jordan

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Review added by
Stuart McLean

Certificate: U
Running Time: 94 Minutes
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Release Date: 20/06/2016
Content Type: Movie

Synopsis:
A sophisticated supernatural Hollywood comedy whose influence continues to be felt, Here Comes Mr. Jordan stars the eminently versatile Robert Montgomery as a working-class boxer and amateur aviator whose plane crashes in a freak accident. He finds himself in heaven but is told, by a wry angel named Mr. Jordan (Claude Rains), that his death was a clerical error, and that he can return to Earth by entering the body of a corrupt (and about-to-be-murdered) financier—whose soul could use a transplant. Nominated for seven Oscars (it won two) and the inspiration for a sequel with Rita Hayworth and two remakes, Alexander Hall’s effervescent Here Comes Mr. Jordan is comic perfection.

Special Features:
•New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
•New conversation between critic Michael Sragow and filmmaker/distributor Michael Schlesinger
•Audio interview from 1991 in which actor Elizabeth Montgomery discusses her father, actor Robert Montgomery
•Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Here Comes Mr. Jordan from 1942 starring Cary Grant, Claude Rains, Evelyn Keyes, and James Gleason
•Trailer
•PLUS: An essay by critic Farran Smith Nehme