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Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

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Reviews Counted:11

Fresh:11

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Average Rating:8.4/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 1 min

Genre: Action/Adventure

Synopsis: Geoff Carter (Carey 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... Geoff Carter (Carey 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 (Jean Arthur) tries to get close to the emotionally closed-off Carter. The film received two Academy Award nominations. [More]

Starring: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth, Richard Barthelmess

Starring: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth, Richard Barthelmess, Thomas Mitchell, Allyn Joslyn, Sig Ruman, Victor Kilian

Director: Howard Hawks

Director: Howard Hawks
Producer: Howard Hawks
Screenwriter: William Rankin, Eleanore Griffin, Jules Furthman
Composer: Dimitri Tiomkin, Manuel Maciste, Morris Stoloff

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Carol Cling
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Daniel M. Kimmel
Daniel M. Kimmel
Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Though everything about it is improbable, it still makes for an immensely entertaining magical film.

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Dennis Schwartz
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Emanuel Levy
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It's a fairly good melodrama, nothing more.

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05/20/03
Frank S. Nugent
Frank S. Nugent
New York Times

Cary Grant, one of cinema's greatest actors, gives maybe his finest performance here. (It's hard to say, there are dozens.)

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05/06/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

Possibly Hawks' best film -- a bold statement.

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08/11/03
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

[Grant's] relationship with the female interloper is more dry eyed and cynical than the film's sentimental male bonding.

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02/17/06
Kent Turner
Kent Turner
Film-Forward.com

One of the subline action movies of the era, with Grant in a John Wayne-like role, matched by Jean Arthur

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01/31/04
Lori Hoffman
Lori Hoffman
Atlantic City Weekly

Perfection that defies scrutiny.

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01/25/09
Tim Brayton
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy

Only Angels Have Wings (1939) is a quintessential adventure-aviation film with drama, dark fatalism, suspense and romance that is stocked with true-to-life sequences,

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