Only Angels Have Wings
by Howard Hawks
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Actor: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess, Rita Hayworth, Thomas MitchellDirector: Howard Hawks
Brand: Sony
Cinematographer: Joseph Walker
Producer: Howard Hawks
Writer: Howard Hawks
Editor: Viola Lawrence
Writer: Eleanore Griffin
Writer: Jules Furthman
Writer: William Rankin
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Georgian (Subtitled); Chinese (Subtitled); Thai (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 121 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-08-31
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Only Angels Have Wings
Movie Review: great pace and dialogue and sweetly old-fashioned
Summary: 4 Stars
This 1939 flick provided perfect entertainment for a rainy Sunday afternoon. Shot in black and white, it nonetheless featured stunning photography (especially for the time) of small, fragile planes soaring over Andean peaks which brought home the danger and romance of those days of aviation.
Cary Grant plays a man trying to run an aerial mail service in some South American country (Barraca!). The technology of the time is amusingly crude. To check the weather, he posts a man in a hut atop a mountain pass to radio down when the clouds are clearing. When a plane gets lost in the fog and tries to find the runway, the ground crew shines a light up into the air and listens to engine noise and then tries to guide him home -- unsuccessfully.
It's a dangerous business and when pilots die, which they often to, the rest of the crew cope with the stress by pretending the dead man never existed. Grant himself, we learn, has been burned by love and is determined not to let another woman pin him down.
In one jarring scene, a plane loaded with explosives is ordered to turn back when the weather changes and drops its cargo on a bunch of condors to get rid of the pesky creatures. Conservation and respect for other creatures was clearly a concept that hadn't yet taken hold.
Jean Arthur strolls off a boat for a night in the town, falls in love with Grant and spends the rest of the movie trying to lure him. She's feisty and witty with a soft center. Rita Hayworth has a secondary role which consists mostly of looking sexy.
The dialogue crackles and sparkles and the movie moves along at a seering pace. Don't think too much about the plot -- it's as ramshackle as the planes these guys fly.
Summary of Only Angels Have Wings
Jean arthur is a stranded showgirl who sets her sights on cary grant in this rousing adventure tale. Special features: full screen version mono sound subtitles: english spanish portugese chinese korean thai vintage advertising talent files and theatrical trailer. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 01/22/2008 Starring: Jean Arthur Cary Grant Run time: 121 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Howard HawksHands 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 Horton
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