We're knocking on heaven's door with a #TCMEssentials presentation of A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH ('46). | Turner Classic Movies: TCM

Alternating between the real world and a fantasy realm, A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH ('46) remains one of the most elaborate fantasy films of its era. Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, the production was a feat of ingenuity and imagination as several architectural drawings, sketches, and detailed scaled models were prepared for the sequences set in Heaven. The largest set piece for the film was the enormous escalator descending from the cosmos than weighed eighty-five tons and had