The read
A Balasaur Score of 81 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7.5/10, Rotten Tomatoes 100%. Critics rate it 25 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 91% of the 235 1940s comedy movies in this catalog. Streaming on Tubi.
Synopsis
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?
Ratings
Critics rate it 25 points higher than audiences do.
125 audience votes
Key crew
- Alexander HallDirector
- Sidney BuchmanScreenplay
- Seton I. MillerScreenplay
- Friedrich HollaenderOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Robert MontgomeryJoe Pendleton
- Evelyn KeyesBette Logan
- Claude RainsMr. Jordan
- Rita JohnsonJulia Farnsworth
- Edward Everett HortonMessenger 7013
- James GleasonMax Corkle
- John EmeryTony Abbott
- Donald MacBrideInspector Williams
- Don CostelloLefty
- Halliwell HobbesSisk
- Benny RubinBugs
- Warren AsheCharlie (uncredited)
