Only Angels Have Wings
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Movie Reviews of Only Angels Have Wings
Movie Review: Very good****
Summary: 4 Stars
No foul words, no suggestive themes, no cursing the name of God. A very atmospheric story, some sad events and some full of hope.Movie Review: Oldies but goodies
Summary: 4 Stars
Altought the style has age a little bit, it's still a excellent movie to watch and enjoy.Movie Review: Dated Hollywood heroics
Summary: 3 Stars
I wanted to like this movie, but I thought it was so dated as to just about cancel out the strong story line and how the story was crafted into a movie.
I like Cary Grant a lot, but here he was the no-nonsense, grim, man-among-men leader that, to my mind, played to none of his strengths. Richard Dix could have done almost as well up to the last three minutes. (Okay, I'm exagerating.)
Jean Arthur was a strong, strange actress who could hold her own with any lead actor. Here she's reduced to waiting anxiously for Grant to glance at her and to holding back the tears while she stands by her man. The subplot involving Rita Hayworth and Richard Barthelmess becomes tedious after a while. Thomas Mitchell, who seems to be in every movie made between 1935 and 1945, played Thomas Mitchell again. (Sometimes he could be great.)
It seemed to me that the tensions were self-evident; nothing was unexpected given the premise of the movie...unlike a movie with a similar premise, Wages of Fear, where your socks were scared off every time a truck approached a pot hole.
Most people seem to love this film. There are a number of older movies that have held up well over the years. Even many which, while dated, still retain a great deal of charm. I can see how this movie would have been a hit when it came out. For me, it just seems dated.
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.
Movie Review: REALLY 'WAY OVER-HYPPED
Summary: 3 Stars
This year, 2009, is the 70th anniversary of the release of this movie. For collectors, it has some historical value. It certainly shows that filmmaking has leapt ahead light years in that time. Everything - writing, direction, sets, effects (little model plane n miniature sets) , acting, et al, all provide a benchmark for motion pictures' advance.
But "Hands down, Only Angels Have Wings is one of the most buoyantly entertaining movies in the American cinema" is absolutely NOT true. Of course, it has Grant, Arthur and Hayworth on the marquee`. But the plot, performances and direction are not 'the most' of anything. In perspective, perhaps the least. For Grant, from that time, his TOPPER work, and any number of other vehicles are incredibly better.
My three stars rating is out of respect for the talents involved and the historical perspective;
if not for sentimentality or academic aspects, one or two stars would more appropriate.
This isn't a movie to see again or pass around/recommend to friends. Unless you are a film-history buff, look
elsewhere for a 'razor-sharp example of action-oriented films' of Howard Hawks or any director of any epoch.