UW Cinematheque - Special Presentations
Here Comes Mr. Jordan | USA | 1941 | 35mm | 93 min. Director: Alexander Hall
Event Details
Date
Saturday, September 7, 2024
Time
7 p.m.
Location
4070 Vilas Hall
Description
Cast: Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains, Evelyn Keyes
Pulled from a plummeting plane moments before impact, professional prizefighter, part-time-saxophonist, and hobbyist pilot Joe Pendleton (Montgomery, in an Oscar-nominated performance), finds himself at the gates of heaven fifty years before schedule. Complications ensue when the celestial Mr. Jordan (a debonair Rains) tries to set things right by temporarily placing Joe within the body of a millionaire.
Pulled from a plummeting plane moments before impact, professional prizefighter, part-time-saxophonist, and hobbyist pilot Joe Pendleton (Montgomery, in an Oscar-nominated performance), finds himself at the gates of heaven fifty years before schedule. Complications ensue when the celestial Mr. Jordan (a debonair Rains) tries to set things right by temporarily placing Joe within the body of a millionaire.
Cost
Free
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