When Peter Carter, played by David Niven bails out of his burning plane, with no parachute and survives, it is because his angel, Conductor 71, has missed him in the english fog. Conductor 71 is dispatched to earth to convince Peter that he must return with him to heaven. Heaven is black and white and earth is technicolour. In one of the great example of breaking the fourth wall, as the rose on his lapel transitions from black and white to colour to indicate leaving heaven and returning to earth, the Conductor remarks, ”One is starved for Technicolor up there”. Another, fleeting rather joyous moment.