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Only Angels Have Wings is a 1939 American adventure romantic drama film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant and Jean Arthur, and is based on a story written by Hawks. Its plot follows the manager of an air freight company in a remote South American port town who is forced to risk his pilots' lives while vying for a major contract.
- $1 million
- Dimitri Tiomkin
- May 15, 1939
- Columbia Pictures
A 1939 adventure drama romance film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Cary Grant and Rita Hayworth. It follows the lives and loves of a group of airmail pilots in South America, facing danger and risk in their daily flights.
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- Adventure, Drama, Romance
- Howard Hawks
- 1939-05-25
A classic adventure drama film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur and Rita Hayworth. The film follows a team of flyers who deliver the mail in a mountainous South American country and face various challenges and dangers.
A 1939 adventure film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur and Rita Hayworth. Set in the Andes Mountains, it follows the romance and danger of air freight pilots in South America.
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- Cary Grant
- Howard Hawks
- Columbia Pictures Corporation
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A classic film of romance and adventure, starring Jean Arthur and Cary Grant as a traveling entertainer and a daredevil pilot who fall in love in a South American port town. The film explores Hawks's themes of masculine codes and the strong-willed women who challenge them, with Oscar-nominated special effects, high-wire aerial photography, and Rita Hayworth in a small but breakout role.
- Geoff Carter
A plot summary of the 1939 film Only Angels Have Wings, a drama about the romance between a showgirl and a pilot in a remote South American air service. The film follows their challenges and dangers as they face various challenges and threats in the air and on the ground.
Apr 12, 2016 · A film essay by Michael Sragow that praises the director Howard Hawks's mastery and personality in Only Angels Have Wings, a 1939 comedy-drama about a South American airmail service. The essay analyzes the film's themes, characters, and style, and how it influenced the auteur theory and the genre of the action film.
