Here Comes Mr. Jordan

Here Comes Mr. Jordan aka Heaven Can Wait and Mr. Jordan Comes to Town 1941 is a romantic comedyfantasy film in which a boxer, mistakenly taken to Heaven before his time, is given a second chance back on Earth. It stars Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains and Evelyn Keyes. Here Comes Mr. Jordan was adapted by Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller from the play Heaven Can Wait by Harry Segall and was directed by Alexander Hall.

As Farnsworth, Joe repays all the investors, including Miss Logans father. He sends for Corkle and convinces him that he is Joe by playing his saxophone just as badly as he did in his previous incarnation. With Farnsworths money to smooth the way, Corkle trains him and arranges a bout with the current heavyweight champion, but Mr. Jordan returns to warn Joe that, while he is destined to be the champion, it cannot happen that way. Joe has just enough time to tell Miss Logan, with whom hes fallen in love, that if a stranger especially if he is a boxer approaches her, to give him a chance. Then he is shot by his secretary. The body is hidden, and Joe returns to a ghostly existence.Accompanied by Mr. Jordan, Joe finds that his replacement in the prizefight with the champ is a cleancut, honest fighter named Murdoch, whom Joe knows and respects. Finding that he has forgotten his lucky saxophone, Joe runs back to the Farnsworth mansion to find that everyone believes Farnsworth has disappeared. Corkle has hired a private investigator to find him. Corkle explains about Joe, Mr. Jordan and the bodyswitching, but of course the police detective Donald MacBride thinks he is a nut. Joe manages to mentally nudge Corkle into turning on the radio to the fight and hears that Murdoch has collapsed without even being touched. Mr. Jordan reveals that the boxer was shot by gamblers because he refused to throw the fight. Joe takes over Murdochs body and wins the title. Back at the mansion, Corkle hears one of the radio announcers mention a saxophone hanging by the ringside and realizes Joe has assumed Murdochs body. ........

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