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Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?
1941 · Directed by Alexander Hall · 94 min · Comedy · Fantasy · Romance · 8 frames
Tagline
A picture different from anything ever screened before!
Crew
- Screenplay: Sidney Buchman, Seton I. Miller
- Cinematography: Joseph Walker
- Edited by: Viola Lawrence
- Music: Friedrich Hollaender
- Produced by: Everett Riskin
Cast
- Robert Montgomery as Joe Pendleton
- Evelyn Keyes as Bette Logan
- Claude Rains as Mr. Jordan
- Rita Johnson as Julia Farnsworth
- Edward Everett Horton as Messenger 7013
- James Gleason as Max Corkle
- John Emery as Tony Abbott
- Donald MacBride as Inspector Williams
- Don Costello as Lefty
- Halliwell Hobbes as Sisk
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Columbia Pictures
- Themes: angel, boxer, saxophone, reincarnation, airplane accident, screwball comedy, prizefight
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