Only Angels Have Wings

"'Only Angels Have Wings' uses its paper-thin plot as an excuse to mount a scalpel-sharp analysis of men under pressure: bitching, blaming and refusing to back down."

"It's a solid melodrama with a brawling sense of place that hasn't entirely stood the test of time."

"Howard Hawks's stirring tale of a fledgling airmail service that traverses the Andes from a strip in a South American banana port is the ultimate workplace dramedy."

"It's a fairly good melodrama, nothing more."

"It's a garrulous, effervescent movie - not my favourite Hawks picture, but very likable all the same."

"This is the quintessential Hawks movie, combining spectacular aerial sequences with the fatalistic barroom machismo of the pilots off duty."