A Matter of Life and Death (film) afterward. David Niven was a fan of chess. Peter and June play chess while they await Dr Reeves. Then Conductor 71 "borrows" a chess book Peter has accidentally knocked off the table, Alekhine's "My Best Games of Chess". After the trial is won, Conductor 71 throws the book from the stairway; June finds it in his jacket pocket "to serve the 'was it a hallucination or did it really happen?' motif of the film", according to Mig Greengard. He also noted, "Lots of chess in movies past and present, but I can't recall another prominent appearance of a real chess
A Matter of Life and Death (film) a Wonderful Life" (1946) and "Stairway to Heaven" (1946), perhaps tapping into so many people's experience of loss of loved ones and offering a kind of consolation." In December 2017, a digitally restored version was shown in British Cinemas. Kevin Maher, writing in "The Times", said the restoration was "crisp" whilst describing the film as being a "..definitive fantasy classic" and also as "essential viewing." The Academy Film Archive preserved "A Matter of Life and Death" in 1999. According to Powell in his "A Life in Movies", the United States was the only market in which the film's name was