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Only Angels Have Wings

1939

Howard Hawks

Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell ...

7.7

5,148

Drama. Romance. Adventure While waiting for her boat, Bonnie Lee stops at a small airport in South America. The pilots there deliver mail over a dangerous and usually foggy mountain pass. Geoff Carter, the lead flyer, seems distant and cold as Bonnie tries to get closer to him. Things heat up as Judy MacPherson, Geoff's old flame, shows up with her husband who is an infamous pilot.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Kevin Maher The Times	"This is classic Hollywood film-making at its most refined. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	an eccentric and entertaining movie soap-opera (...) not my favourite Hawks picture, but very likable all the same (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Michael Sragow The New Yorker	"Hawks weaves brawny romance and humor and a man’s-man sort of heartbreak into his tribute to the ideal of vocation"	POS
United Kingdom	Tom Huddleston Time Out	"Smart, incisive and often very funny (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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