Here Comes Mr. Jordan
film by Hall [1941]
Here Comes Mr. Jordan, American romantic comedy film, released in 1941, that involves a boxer who is taken to heaven before his time but is given a second chance at life. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) Robert Montgomery played prize-fighter and amateur pilot Joe Pendleton, who, on the verge of winning the championship, is involved in a plane accident and mistakenly taken to heaven by an officious angel. To rectify the error and to give him a chance to win the boxing title although his body has been cremated, he is returned to life in another man’s ...(100 of 242 words)