Time Out
'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.
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Only Angels Have Wings
Cary Grant and Jean Arthur are daredevil fliers in South America in this Oscar-nominated classic American adventure film based on the director's own experiences.
Geoff Carter (Grant) is the head of a crumbling air freight service in desperate need of a replacement pilot. He is forced to hire a descredited aviator (Richard Barthelmess) who arrives with his wife (Rita Hayworth), Carter's ex-lover. Meanwhile, traveler Bonnie Lee (Arthur) tries to get close to the emotionally closed-off Carter.
Less1939Rating: PG121 minsUSAEnglish and Spanish with English subtitles
AdventureDramaRomance
- Director:
- Howard Hawks ('Rio Bravo', 'Red River', 'To Have and Have Not')
- Writer:
- Jules Furthman
- Cast:
- Cary GrantJean ArthurRichard BarthelmessRita HayworthThomas MitchellAllyn JoslynSig RumanVictor Kilian
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The Times
It's a solid melodrama with a brawling sense of place that hasn't entirely stood the test of time.
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The New Yorker
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.
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The Guardian
It's a garrulous, effervescent movie - not my favourite Hawks picture, but very likable all the same.
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Independent
This is the quintessential Hawks movie, combining spectacular aerial sequences with the fatalistic barroom machismo of the pilots off duty.
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Only Angels Have Wings is available to stream in New Zealand now on Apple TV.