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Cabin in the Sky

Release Date:March 24, 1943

Running Time:98 min

Genres:Fantasy, Music

Director

Cast

Ethel Waters Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson Lena Horne Louis Armstrong Rex Ingram Kenneth Spencer John 'Bubbles' Sublett Oscar Polk Mantan Moreland Willie Best Fletcher Rivers Leon James Poke

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where he learns that he will be sent back to Earth for six months to prove that he deserves to be in heaven. He awakens, remembering nothing and struggles to do right by his devout wife, Petunia, while an angel known as the General and the devil's son, Lucifer Jr., fight for his soul.

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