to some of u and director ernst lubitsch and adore for his underlying cheekiness and ironic comic touch and be rather wet when it come to pick material . it isn not that lubitsch be overrate on the contrary and he probably be ahead of his time in term of a visual narrative yet the project he become attach to ( or be assign to ) be not quite the landmark of comedy his fan like to label them . with heaven can wait and a screen adaptation of lazlo bus fekete play birthday and lubitsch be saddle with sleepy don ameche in the lead and the combination of an anemic plot and a colorless star and and a musty flashback framework stymy the director . a wicked man at the turn of the century fall asleep without realize it and present the fact of his life in front of hell entrance . ameche . wicked . that be problem number one . the promise opening sequence ( set in the hades lobby ) quickly give way to dreary whimsy and and the support cast be of little help . half from .