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O Pior dos Pecados

Título original: Heavens Above!
  • 1963
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 58 min
AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
6,7/10
1,8 mil
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Peter Sellers, Ian Carmichael, Irene Handl, Isabel Jeans, Bernard Miles, Cecil Parker, and Eric Sykes in O Pior dos Pecados (1963)
ComédiaSátira

Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaA minister is accidentally appointed to a snobbish parish.A minister is accidentally appointed to a snobbish parish.A minister is accidentally appointed to a snobbish parish.

  • Direção
    • John Boulting
    • Roy Boulting
  • Roteiristas
    • Frank Harvey
    • John Boulting
    • Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Artistas
    • Peter Sellers
    • Cecil Parker
    • Isabel Jeans
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  • AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
    6,7/10
    1,8 mil
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    • Direção
      • John Boulting
      • Roy Boulting
    • Roteiristas
      • Frank Harvey
      • John Boulting
      • Malcolm Muggeridge
    • Artistas
      • Peter Sellers
      • Cecil Parker
      • Isabel Jeans
    • 31Avaliações de usuários
    • 16Avaliações da crítica
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    Peter Sellers
    Peter Sellers
    • The Reverend John Smallwood
    Cecil Parker
    Cecil Parker
    • Archdeacon Aspinall
    Isabel Jeans
    Isabel Jeans
    • Lady Despard
    Ian Carmichael
    Ian Carmichael
    • The Other Smallwood
    Bernard Miles
    Bernard Miles
    • Simpson
    Brock Peters
    Brock Peters
    • Matthew
    Eric Sykes
    Eric Sykes
    • Harry Smith
    Irene Handl
    Irene Handl
    • Rene Smith
    Miriam Karlin
    Miriam Karlin
    • Winnie Smith
    Joan Miller
    • Mrs. Smith-Gould
    Miles Malleson
    Miles Malleson
    • Rockeby
    Eric Barker
    Eric Barker
    • Bank Manager
    William Hartnell
    William Hartnell
    • Major Fowler
    Roy Kinnear
    Roy Kinnear
    • Fred Smith
    Joan Hickson
    Joan Hickson
    • Housewife
    Kenneth Griffith
    Kenneth Griffith
    • Rev. Owen Thomas
    Mark Eden
    Mark Eden
    • Sir Geoffrey Despard
    John Comer
    John Comer
    • Butcher
    • Direção
      • John Boulting
      • Roy Boulting
    • Roteiristas
      • Frank Harvey
      • John Boulting
      • Malcolm Muggeridge
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    8no-skyline

    Class British Comedy

    This is one of the classic British comedies of the 1960's Peter Sellers is superb as the Rev Smallwood a socialist priest mistakenly sent to an upper-crust English village. Eric Sykes and Cecil Parker excel in their roles, Sykes as the lay about, work dodging Smith and Parker as the holier than thou archdeacon. Irene Handle and Ian Carmicheal also make appearances in this film in their typical roles played to perfection.

    This film is a satire (with elements of farce) on British society particularly the class system as well as religions role in it. The character are typically English and all show their true nature as the Rev Smallwood bumbles his way into a media frenzy without really knowing it.

    All in all if you like British comedy this film is a must see but if you haven't lived in the U.K some of the lines and issues may be lost on you.

    A classic up there with the likes of The Ladykillers and Lavender Hill Mob as the cream of British Comedy. 8/10
    7slokes

    Tough-Minded Religious Satire

    "Heavens Above!" is a barbed satire that cuts both ways, ridiculing organized religion for its complacence and its unrealistic aspirations and humanism regarding the perfectibility of man, especially the working-class kind. Though far from the funniest Peter Sellers comedy, it certainly is worthy in its own unique way.

    Sellers plays Rev. John Smallwood, an Anglican prison chaplain accidentally assigned to the affluent community of Orbiston Parva. A sincere man of faith, Smallwood tries to drum up a little church fervor from his largely lapsed congregation, preaching the Gospel as Living Word rather than as aural wallpaper for weddings and funerals. Yet every earnest effort only stokes greater amounts of selfishness, even brutality.

    "There aren't enough real Christians about to feed a decent lion," Smallwood laments.

    At the same time, he must deal with the miserable quality of the clergy around him, like his own bosses in the Church of England hierarchy who strain only to keep their rich donor base happy and generous or the odd Pentecostal preacher who offers up damnation-filled sermons: "It's only the fires of hell that keep the churches warm."

    "Heavens Above!" is a comedy of despair. If there is a God, it seems to say, He has better sense than to waste His time with blighted human riffraff like the Smiths, an itinerant family who leeches off Smallwood while feigning piety. Sellers is terrific, though in a largely straight performance, pulling us in with his naive gentility to the point where a lot of the gags turn painful when he is the butt of humor. The closest Sellers gets to laugh-getting - other than when Smallwood unknowingly snacks from a bowl of dog treats - is the opening, where he provides an uncredited voice-over as an American narrator introducing us to the uninspiring sight of Orbiston Parva. However much he stumbles and is tripped up, Smallwood is simply too nice a character to laugh at.

    For all the apparent agnosticism in "Heavens Above", there's a strain of true religious belief in Smallwood's situation. Perhaps it's because the idea came from Malcolm Muggeridge, the last faith-friendly satirist England has produced. Smallwood is presented as a man of good works, but also doctrinal zeal. His scorn for the local pep-pill product "Tranquilax", it seems, is largely due to its proclaiming itself the "three-in-one restorative". For him, the only 3-in-1 restorative is the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost.

    "Heavens Above!" is also interesting for the fact it catches Sellers just on the cusp of becoming an international star, still relatively round in body, making one of his last films aimed exclusively at his home British market. Like the later "Hoffman" and "Being There", this shows just how well Sellers could carry a film without resorting to silly accents or slapstick.

    The film's directors, John and Roy Boulting, do well to set Sellers up with an ace supporting cast recognizable from other Sellers productions of the period, including George Woodbridge and Cecil Parker as a pair of agreeably venal curates; Irene Handl and Eric Sykes as Mr. and Mrs. Smith, heads of a scruffy, thieving clan; and Kenneth Griffith as the fire-and-brimstone preacher.

    If only they cut that silly ending! There's other issues, too, like a penchant for slow camera zooms without reason, and the way the movie piles on Smallwood at the expense of comedy, but the out-of-left-field ending stings worst, an attempt at giving the film a falsely up note. Alas, when you really think about it, it only leaves Smallwood worse off than ever.

    But you do care about the guy, a sign someone was doing something right. Obviously that includes Peter Sellers. With more laughs and a tighter ending, "Heavens Above!" would have ranked among his greatest films. As it is, it's pretty good all the same, food for thought in our secular times.
    8Stargazer59

    Great fun with an abundance of acting talent!

    This film is great fun, well written and well acted. While the ending is unexpected, if you haven't seen it before, it is difficult to know how all the issues could've been resolved in any other way except as unresolved as it is here! They did the same thing to John Steed in the very last episode of The Avengers, appropriately titled "Bizarre", some six years later! That episode featured Roy Kinnear as the marvellously named Bagpipes Happychap who also features here amongst a wealth of famous faces including the original Doctor Who, William Hartnell, in the year that he took that role. Again, considering the ending, that too seems appropriate now and brought a wry smile to this viewer's face especially as another of the film's cast, Mark Eden, also appeared, in the title role of "Marco Polo", opposite Hartnell in that series!!! Peter Sellars is on fine form as the hopelessly idealistic new vicar as is Eric Sykes as a chain smoking butcher! Best of all is the plethora of verbal and visual irony which should be enough to keep any discerning viewer entertained!!!
    8ella-48

    Flawed but lovely satire

    I shan't go on at any length, as others have already done the job for me. Instead I'll just drop in a couple of interesting factoids about this film.

    1) "Heavens Above!" was the third in a trio (a triptych??) of films satirising great pillars of the British establishment:

    The military;

    Industry/the trade unions;

    The church.

    The previous two in the series were "Private's Progress" (Ian Carmichael as Stanley Windrush - a fraightfully posh chinless wonder, drafted into the army for WWII and finding himself embroiled unwittingly in a grand scheme to steal great works of art) and "I'm Alright, Jack" (Carmichael as the same Stanley Windrush, now de-mobbed and dumped by his despairing family into the shop floor workforce at one of their factories, in the hope that he might learn the business). The Windrush family characters were dropped for Heavens Above, although Carmichael makes a small appearance as "the other Vicar called Smallwood".

    2) Fans of the Small Faces should keep their eyes peeled for 'Jack' - eldest son of the huge family of itinerant scroungers who take up residence in the vicarage. It's none other than cheeky cockney mudlark STEVE MARRIOTT, fresh from his West End stint as The Artful Dodger in Oliver !
    8planktonrules

    One of Sellers' best films is all but forgotten today

    This was a marvelous little comedy that in many ways is reminiscent of the great Alec Guinness film, THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT. Like this other film, the movie's main theme is unintended consequences that arise from some selfless and altruistic acts of the leads.

    Peter Sellers plays a rather "straight" role as a well-meaning and decent Anglican minister. Unlike Inspector Clouseau and Dr. Strangelove, this character is much more subtle and believable. He didn't play the part strictly for laughs but was more of a characterization. Sellers was a truly gifted and amazing man in how he could seemingly become the people he was playing. His gentle manner and working-class accent worked perfectly to create one of the nicest and sincere priests in film history.

    The movie is exceptional in that I think the movie can be enjoyed by religious and non-religious people alike. The film is very cynical and explores human nature in such a way that everyone can take something profound from the film. It is also unusual in that while technically a comedy, it is also serious social commentary. It had a lot to say about the teachings of Jesus and just how impossible it would be to truly implement them in a basically selfish world! Aside from a bad word used here or there, none of this should put off by the film. It isn't heavy-handed or preachy and isn't meant to offend organized religion.

    The only reason the film only merits an 8 is because the ending is a bit of a let-down. It really didn't make much sense and was impossible to believe and because of this it really blunted the overall effect of the movie.

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    • Curiosidades
      Steve Marriott, who played Harry Smith's son Jack, was later to become the lead singer and guitarist with influential English rock group, the Small Faces.
    • Erros de gravação
      When on the train at the 1:34:30 mark, the Godminster Gazette newspaper headline mentioning Orbiston Parva has left the R out of Parva spelling it Pava.
    • Citações

      Simpson: I remember Sir George used to say "Whenever you hears the Bible quoted, look out cos it's most likely the devil himself!"

    • Versões alternativas
      Original British version runs 118 minutes.
    • Conexões
      Features A Um Passo da Eternidade (1953)
    • Trilhas sonoras
      From Here To Eternity
      (uncredited)

      Written by Fred Karger and Robert Wells

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    • Data de lançamento
      • 23 de maio de 1963 (Reino Unido)
    • País de origem
      • Reino Unido
    • Idiomas
      • Inglês
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      • Heavens Above!
    • Locações de filme
      • Claremont House, Esher, Surrey, Inglaterra, Reino Unido(Holcomb Manor - Lady Despard's mansion)
    • Empresa de produção
      • Charter Film Productions
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    • Tempo de duração
      1 hora 58 minutos
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      • Black and White
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