FEATURE BY ASLAN BARNES
The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe is more than an homage to CS Lewis’ first Narnia novel. Quite literally, it’s A Matter of Life and Death (1946), too.
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s epic fantasy romance begins when parachute-less RAF pilot Peter (David Niven) bales out of a blazing Lancaster bomber above the English Channel and, by Heavenly oversight, lives to fall in love with June (Kim Hunter), the R/T operator with whom he shared what he believed would be his final moments.