Only Angels Have Wings
Summary:
Virtually a textbook example of Howard Hawks' "macho" mode, Only Angels Have Wings takes place high in the Peruvian Andes. Cary Grant heads a ramshackle airmail and freight service, forced to fly in the most perilous of weather conditions to the most treacherous of destinations. Facing death on a near-hourly basis, Grant and his flyers have adopted a casual, all-in-day's-work... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Cary Grant - (Geoff Carter)
Jean Arthur - (Bonnie Lee)
Richard Barthelmess - (Bat McPherson)
Rita Hayworth - (Judith McPherson)
Thomas Mitchell - (Kid Dabb)
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Review:
Only Angels Have Wings exemplifies the complex, taciturn male bravado common to the films of Howard Hawks. Unfairly lumped into the genre of the airborne drama, it is one of Hawks' more neglected films. An experienced pilot himself, Hawks based Angels on real people and events from his time spent on the airfields; his brother was... Continue >>
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