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Only Angels Have Wings

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Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

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Reviews Counted: 10

Fresh: 10

Rotten:0

Average Rating: 8.3/10

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 his wife (Rita Hayworth), Carter's... 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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Aug 31, 1999

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08/27/08
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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
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[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
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01/26/06
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Emanuel Levy
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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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02/08/04
Daniel M. Kimmel
Worcester Telegram & Gazette
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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
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08/22/03
Carol Cling
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Possibly Hawks' best film -- a bold statement.

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08/11/03
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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It's a fairly good melodrama, nothing more.

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05/20/03
Frank S. Nugent
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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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