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Only Angels Have Wings

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Only Angels Have Wings
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NR,2hrs 0min
Genre:
Action
Released:
January 1, 1939
Director:
Howard Hawks
Distributor:
Columbia TriStar
Starring:
Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess  ...more
Synopsis: Virtually a textbook example of Howard Hawks' "macho" mode, Only Angels Have Wings takes place high in the Peruvian Andes. Cary Grant heads a ramshackle airmail and freight service, forced to fly in the most perilous of weather conditions to the most treacherous of destinations. Facing death on a near-hourly basis, Grant and his flyers have adopted a casual, all-in-day's-work attitude towards mortality. If a pilot cracks up and dies, it's simply because he didn't have what it took, and that's that. ... Full Synopsis
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Brendon Hanley, AMG Review
Only Angels Have Wings exemplifies the complex, taciturn male bravado common to the films of Howard Hawks. Unfairly lumped into the genre of the airborne drama, it is one of Hawks' more neglected films. An experienced pilot himself, Hawks based Angels on real people and events from his time spent on the airfields; his brother was killed in a plane crash. Cary Grant plays the courageous, fatalistic ... Full Review
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Cary Grant
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Rita Hayworth
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