Perfection that defies scrutiny.
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:11
Rotten:0
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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Reviews for Only Angels Have Wings
Cary Grant, one of cinema's greatest actors, gives maybe his finest performance here. (It's hard to say, there are dozens.)
[Grant's] relationship with the female interloper is more dry eyed and cynical than the film's sentimental male bonding.
Though everything about it is improbable, it still makes for an immensely entertaining magical film.
One of the subline action movies of the era, with Grant in a John Wayne-like role, matched by Jean Arthur
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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