Only Angels Have Wings
by Howard Hawks
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Actor: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess, Rita Hayworth, Thomas MitchellDirector: Howard Hawks
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Chinese (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Thai (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-08-31
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Only Angels Have Wings
Movie Review: Never got off the ground
Summary: 3 Stars
I loved The Talk of the Town with Cary Grant and Jean Arthur and was hoping this would be as good. Where that had a solid script that supported all the slapdash wonderfully silly humor of that era....this had a supposed adventure story set in some would-be exotic locale. Nothing was believable.
We see the set-up---supposedly heartless heroic type (Grant) who won't commit to any love but that of flying meets spunky, independent entertainer (Arthur). She fancies herself something of an adventurer, too, but meets her match with the cool, glossy Grant who has shut his heart down long ago. Somehow Grant is too polished and gorgeous to be convincing in the role. He looks perfect even when shot in the shoulder. It has been said that Jean Arthur felt threatened by the younger Rita Hayworth, and she should have been. She looks positively dowdy throughout...maybe it's the hairdo? Even when she sheds the tailored suit for a chenille robe, she still looks like Bonnie Lee from Brooklyn. It's hard to believe that, after all his years of avoiding women that he would succomb to her. All of the genuine chemistry that existed between the two of them in Talk of the Town just wasn't present here at all.. too bad.
People who love flying might get a lot more out of the film than I did.
Summary of Only Angels Have Wings
Hands down, Only Angels Have Wings is one of the most buoyantly entertaining movies in the American cinema. It is also a razor-sharp example of the action-oriented films of Howard Hawks, the wide-ranging auteur who would go on to make To Have and Have Not and Red River. This one is set in Barranca, a South American port city swathed in perpetual night fog, where a band of mail pilots struggle daily to get their planes through a treacherous mountain pass. They don't care about the mail so much as they live by the rules of adventure, professionalism, and friendly rivalry. Cary Grant is the leader of this daredevil group, a man who won't be pinned down to anything except his own code of stoicism. ("I don't believe in laying in a supply of anything," he says, which may be why he's always asking people for matches to light his cigarettes.) His cool style is tested by the arrival of a wisecracking blonde (Jean Arthur) and an ex-mistress (Rita Hayworth); Rita's now married to a pilot (Richard Barthelmess), disgraced by a single act of cowardice. Hawks always got great mileage from throwing a bunch of colorful characters together in an enclosed space, where death could strike in a moment. The great secret about Hawks is that although his feel for action was crackling, he was really more interested in the way people exchanged sidelong glances or lit each other's cigarettes--there's a lot of both in Only Angels Have Wings. --Robert HortonAction & Adventure DVD Video
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