A quietly fantastic story about a bourgeois philanderer who, after his death, presents himself at the gates of hell (where he had so often been advised to go during his lifetime), Heaven Can Wait was Ernst Lubitsch's first color film and, as might be expected, his was an ingeniously elegant and witty use of the new medium. Film Comment Editor Richard Corliss designates Heaven Can Wait as “the climax and elegy” of the talking comedy. “With this film the miraculous occurred, a Hollywood Satan could be as suave as a Shavian one; a charming philanderer could be sent to heaven; Don Ameche and Gene Tierney could give lovely performances....”