Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) on Netflix
Passed19411h 34mComedyFantasyRomance
Boxer Joe Pendleton reaches Heaven before his time when his plane crashes. The celestial Mr. Jordan offers him the body of a wealthy banker, Bruce Farnsworth, whose own time has run out.
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Plot summary
Boxer and amateur pilot Joe Pendleton, known as the Flying Pug, is flying to a fight in New York when a control cable severs and his plane goes down. The heavenly messenger 7013, new to the job, assumes he could not have survived and collects his soul early. In the afterlife the records show Joe was due another fifty years, but his manager Max Corkle has already had the body cremated. Mr. Jordan, 7013's superior, explains that a body is worn like an overcoat and that Joe must take over someone newly dead. Joe wants a body fit enough to keep boxing and turns down several. Then he sees Bruce Farnsworth, a crooked wealthy banker, and the way Farnsworth's wife and secretary treat Bette Logan, whose father's name the banker misused, and agrees to take over the life.
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- Bert Youngas Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
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- Columbia Pictures bought the film rights to Harry Segall's 1938 play Heaven Can Wait as a vehicle for Cary Grant, ending Broadway producer Jed Harris's plan to stage it in New York; MGM's Robert Montgomery was then borrowed to star in the film.
- The film's premise of a protagonist given a second chance by angels inspired other films over the following decade, including I Married an Angel (1942), A Guy Named Joe (1943) and Angels in the Outfield (1951).
