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Release Date: 1939

Cast: Don "Red" Barry, John Carroll, Richard Barthelmess, Jean Arthur, Victor Kilian, Cary Grant, Allyn Joslyn, Thomas Mitchell, Rita Hayworth, Pat Flaherty

Categories: Movies, Buddy film, Adventure, Action, Black-and-white, Action/Adventure, Romance Film, Airplanes and airports

Only Angels Have Wings (1939) is a movie directed by Howard Hawks, and starring Cary Grant and Jean Arthur. It is generally regarded as being among Hawks' finest films, particularly in its portrayal of the professionalism of the pilots, its atmosphere, and the flying sequences. It inspired the 1983 television series Tales of the Gold Monkey, which in turn inspired the 1990 television series TaleSpin. Geoff Carter (Grant) is a pilot and the manager of a small, barely solvent air service owned by "Dutchy" Van Reiter (Sig Ruman) carrying mail from the South American port town of Barranca over... MORE

Only Angels Have Wings (1939) is a movie directed by Howard Hawks, and starring Cary Grant and Jean Arthur. It is generally regarded as being among Hawks' finest films, particularly in its portrayal of the professionalism of the pilots, its atmosphere, and the flying sequences. It inspired the 1983 television series Tales of the Gold Monkey, which in turn inspired the 1990 television series TaleSpin. Geoff Carter (Grant) is a pilot and the manager of a small, barely solvent air service owned by "Dutchy" Van Reiter (Sig Ruman) carrying mail from the South American port town of Barranca over the Andes Mountains. Bonnie Lee (Arthur), a piano-playing entertainer, arrives one day and becomes infatuated with Carter, despite his fatalistic attitude about the dangerous mountain flying, and stays on in Barranca (not at Carter's invitation, as he insists on telling her). The situation is complicated by the appearance of Bat MacPherson (Richard Barthelmess) and his wife Judy (Rita Hayworth). MacPherson is a pilot shunned by other fliers because he once bailed out of a plane, leaving his mechanic — the brother of 'Kid' Dabb (Thomas Mitchell), Carter's best friend — to be killed in the LESS