Here Comes Mr. Jordan
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| Directed by | Alexander Hall |
| Produced by | Everett Riskin |
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Heaven Can Wait (1938 play) by Harry Segall |
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| Music by | Friedrich Hollaender |
| Cinematography | Joseph Walker |
| Edited by | Viola Lawrence |
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| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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94 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (aka Heaven Can Wait and Mr. Jordan Comes to Town) (1941) is a romantic comedy-fantasy film in which a boxer, mistakenly taken to Heaven before his time, is given a second chance back on Earth. It stars Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains and Evelyn Keyes. Here Comes Mr. Jordan was adapted by Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller from the play Heaven Can Wait, written by Harry Segall and directed by Alexander Hall.
Here Comes Mr. Jordan was followed by Down to Earth (1947), in which two of the actors reprised their roles. Warren Beatty remade it in 1978 as Heaven Can Wait. The premise of guardian angels was the focus of other Hollywood features, including I Married an Angel (1942); A Guy Named Joe (1943); Angel on My Shoulder (1946), in which Rains plays the Devil; and Angels in the Outfield (1951), but it all began with Here Comes Mr. Jordan.
On 11th May 1941, Boxer and amateur pilot Joe Pendleton (Robert Montgomery), affectionately known as "the Flying Pug", flies his small aircraft to his next fight in New York City, but crashes when a control cable severs. His soul is "rescued" by 7013 (Edward Everett Horton), an officious angel who assumed that Joe could not have survived. Joe's manager, Max "Pop" Corkle (James Gleason), has his body cremated. In the afterlife, the records show his death was a mistake; he was supposed to live for 50 more years. The angel's superior, Mr. Jordan (Claude Rains), confirms this, but since there is no more body, Joe will have to take over a newly dead corpse. Mr. Jordan explains that a body is just something that is worn, like an overcoat; inside, Joe will still be himself. Joe insists that it be someone in good physical shape, because he wants to continue his boxing career. Joe keeps saying the body they find "has to be in the pink".
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