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| Only Angels Have Wings | 
| Director: Howard Hawks
Actors: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess, Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (26 reviews)
Sales Rank: 25403
Format: Black & White, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Georgian (Subtitled), Chinese (Subtitled), Thai (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD
Running Time: 120 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 4.9 x 0.6
MPN: COLD09469D
UPC: 043396094697
EAN: 0043396094697
ASIN: B00000JRW5
Release Date: August 31, 1999
Theatrical Release Date: May 15, 1939
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Jean arthur is a stranded showgirl who sets her sights on cary grant in this rousing adventure tale. Special features: full screen version mono sound subtitles: english spanish portugese chinese korean thai vintage advertising talent files and theatrical trailer. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 01/22/2008 Starring: Jean Arthur Cary Grant Run time: 121 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Howard Hawks
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Hands down, Only Angels Have Wings is one of the most buoyantly entertaining movies in the American cinema. It is also a razor-sharp example of the action-oriented films of Howard Hawks, the wide-ranging auteur who would go on to make To Have and Have Not and Red River. This one is set in Barranca, a South American port city swathed in perpetual night fog, where a band of mail pilots struggle daily to get their planes through a treacherous mountain pass. They don't care about the mail so much as they live by the rules of adventure, professionalism, and friendly rivalry. Cary Grant is the leader of this daredevil group, a man who won't be pinned down to anything except his own code of stoicism. ("I don't believe in laying in a supply of anything," he says, which may be why he's always asking people for matches to light his cigarettes.) His cool style is tested by the arrival of a wisecracking blonde (Jean Arthur) and an ex-mistress (Rita Hayworth); Rita's now married to a pilot (Richard Barthelmess), disgraced by a single act of cowardice. Hawks always got great mileage from throwing a bunch of colorful characters together in an enclosed space, where death could strike in a moment. The great secret about Hawks is that although his feel for action was crackling, he was really more interested in the way people exchanged sidelong glances or lit each other's cigarettes--there's a lot of both in Only Angels Have Wings. --Robert Horton
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 Believe Me This Angel Has Wings! November 8, 2008
Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth and such go town to South America where airplane pilots working for the banana industry fly in some pretty dangerous places. A lot of drama and excitement. Who will Cary end up with? Is Jean pregnant - Hollywood style? What is wrong with Rita's new husband? Why doesn't anybody like him, no matter what he does and what did he do to make them hate him? Do you really forget people who died 20 minutes ago? I loved this movie. It was very fun and exciting!
 VERY ENTERTAINING & LIVELY GRANT FILM! September 23, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
One of the best Grant films I've seen so far. This film is included on a Cary Grant box set I purchased along with four other top Grant films. This one is my second favorite of the lot. I still have one more to go. The entire cast is very good in this lively romance adventure. It's a little melodramatic in spots, but weren't they all back then? The DVD transfer is very good on the box set and there are a few extras.
 Never got off the ground September 29, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved The Talk of the Town with Cary Grant and Jean Arthur and was hoping this would be as good. Where that had a solid script that supported all the slapdash wonderfully silly humor of that era....this had a supposed adventure story set in some would-be exotic locale. Nothing was believable.
We see the set-up---supposedly heartless heroic type (Grant) who won't commit to any love but that of flying meets spunky, independent entertainer (Arthur). She fancies herself something of an adventurer, too, but meets her match with the cool, glossy Grant who has shut his heart down long ago. Somehow Grant is too polished and gorgeous to be convincing in the role. He looks perfect even when shot in the shoulder. It has been said that Jean Arthur felt threatened by the younger Rita Hayworth, and she should have been. She looks positively dowdy throughout...maybe it's the hairdo? Even when she sheds the tailored suit for a chenille robe, she still looks like Bonnie Lee from Brooklyn. It's hard to believe that, after all his years of avoiding women that he would succomb to her. All of the genuine chemistry that existed between the two of them in Talk of the Town just wasn't present here at all.. too bad.
People who love flying might get a lot more out of the film than I did.
Only Angels Have Wings June 21, 2007
Elements of drama and romance co-mingle with the serious business of men being men in this involving, exciting adventure story. Grant stretches his screen persona effortlessly as a tough guy with little humor and no polish, and Arthur makes a spunky love interest. Hayworth looks particularly stunning in a pivotal early role, and Thomas Mitchell also shines as Kid Dabb, a loyal older pilot who's losing his bearings. This heroic outing soars.
Classic Cary May 28, 2007
Cary Grant and Jean Arthur at their best. Great supporting cast sometimes overwhelm the "stars" but these two manage to steal the show. It don't get no better than this!! Look for very young Rita Hayworth in minor role.
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