Only Angels Have Wings
Only Angels Have Wings

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When the ship San Luis makes a stop at the port of Barranca to deliver mailbags and load bananas, cabaret singer Bonnie Lee leaves the boat for some hours to look around. She meets a gang of American flyers who work for a warm-hearted Dutchman. He is the owner of a scrubby hotel, but also of the shaky Barranca Airways, led by the tough flyer Geoff Carter. The only way to fly out of Barranca is through a deep pass at 14,000 feet above the ground. As the weather is often stormy... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Only Angels Have Wings:

Cary Grant
Jean Arthur
Richard Barthelmess
Rita Hayworth
Thomas Mitchell
Allyn Joslyn

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When the ship San Luis makes a stop at the port of Barranca to deliver mailbags and load bananas, cabaret singer Bonnie Lee leaves the boat for some hours to look around. She meets a gang of American flyers who work for a warm-hearted Dutchman. He is the owner of a scrubby hotel, but also of the shaky Barranca Airways, led by the tough flyer Geoff Carter. The only way to fly out of Barranca is through a deep pass at 14,000 feet above the ground. As the weather is often stormy and foggy, the flights are extremely difficult, and several flyers have already lost their lives. Bonnie falls in love with Geoff, who reminds her of her father, a trapeze artist who worked without safety net. She decides to leave the boat and stay at the hotel. But Geoff is scared of being detained by a woman. He wants to continue his risky lifestyle uninterrupted. The situation is aggravated when a new flyer, Bat MacPherson, turns up with his wife Judy. He once caused the death of a young flyer by leaving a malfunctioning airplane in a parachute, and Judy was once Geoff's girlfriend, who he left because she tried to stop him from making risky flights.

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Combustible Celluloid - 10/10 by Jeffrey M. AndersonCary Grant, one of cinema's greatest actors, gives maybe his finest performance here. (It's hard to say, there are dozens.)
The A.V. Club - 10/10 by Mike D'AngeloThe film offers genuine intrigue and excitement.... But its ultimate power derives largely from its unusual ethos, which celebrates pragmatism at the expense of emotional behavior while simultaneously acknowledging just how profound a pragmatist’s emotions can be.
New Yorker - 10/10 by Michael SragowHawks weaves brawny romance and humor and a man’s-man sort of heartbreak into his tribute to the ideal of vocation.
Slant Magazine - 10/10 by Zach CampbellThe other reason why Hawks's film can't be approached as a pure sociological interrogation is that it's, quite visibly, a Hollywood production with certain inescapable commitments to entertainment convention. This isn't to downgrade the movie, though, as there's a reason why Hawks and other Old Hollywood filmmakers have become so revered.
Total Film - 10/10 by Neil SmithOne of [Hawks'] finest pictures: a swoony saga of fatalistic flyboys and the women who try to keep their feet on the ground.
Times (UK) - 10/10 by Kevin MaherThe flying effects, obviously, have dated, but everything else crackles with chemistry and class.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) - 10/10 by Ken HankeA masterpiece -- and quite possibly Hawks' best film. An essential if ever there was one.
Radio Times - 10/10 by Tony SlomanThis is great cinema: supremely entertaining, mature storytelling.
CraveOnline - 10/10 by Witney Seibold"Only Angels Have Wings" is... wet, atmospheric, and even a bit tragic. These men live close to death, and, as such, have to live quickly. There is a sadness hanging over these people.
Independent (UK) - 10/10 by Geoffrey MacnabThis is the quintessential Hawks movie, combining spectacular aerial sequences with the fatalistic barroom machismo of the pilots off duty.

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