# Le ciel peut attendre (1943)

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**Original title**: *Heaven Can Wait*
**Runtime**: 112 min
**Genres**: Comedy, Romance, Fantasy, Drama
**Directed by**: Ernst Lubitsch
**Written by**: Samson Raphaelson
**Starring**: Don Ameche, Gene Tierney, Charles Coburn, Marjorie Main, Laird Cregar, Spring Byington

> *He believed in Love… Honor… and Obey – That Impulse!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Even the devil deserves a good comeback story.

A smug rogue lands in Hell only to argue his sin quota is still unmet.

He spends the rest of the runtime convincing the underworld his morality is perfectly calibrated—just ask his long-suffering wife.

**Mood tags**: cozy, playful

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