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Only Angels Have Wings
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 Only Angels Have Wings DVD cover |
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| Directed by | Howard Hawks |
| Produced by | Howard Hawks |
| Written by | Howard Hawks (story) Jules Furthman |
| Starring | Cary Grant Jean Arthur |
| Music by | Dimitri Tiomkin |
| Cinematography | Joseph Walker |
| Editing by | Viola Lawrence |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | May 15, 1939 (USA) |
| Running time | 121 min. |
| Language | English Spanish |
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Only Angels Have Wings (1939) is a movie directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant and Jean Arthur. While somewhat contrived in its plot twists, 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.
The plot of the film was copied almost exactly in the 1942 film Flying Tigers. The tone of this film inspired the 1983 television series Tales of the Gold Monkey.
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Grant plays Geoff Carter, pilot and manager of a small air service carrying mail from the port town of Barranca (short for Barrancabermeja) in Colombia over the Andes. Arthur is Bonnie Lee, a piano-playing entertainer who becomes infatuated with Carter, despite his fatalistic attitude toward the dangers of flying, and stays on in Barranca (not at Carter's invitation, as he insists on telling her). The situation is complicated by the arrival of Bat Kilgallen (Richard Barthelmess) and his wife Judy (Rita Hayworth). Kilgallen is a pilot shunned by other fliers because he once bailed out of a plane, allowing his mechanic (the brother of Kid Dabb (Thomas Mitchell), Carter's best friend) to be killed in the resulting crash. Judy is Carter's former lover.
- Carter (referring to a pilot who has just been killed in a crash): Who's Joe?
- Bonnie: I'm hard to get, Geoff. All you have to do is ask me.
- Geoff: Got a match?
Bonnie: Say, don't you ever have any?
Geoff: No - don't believe in laying in a supply of anything.
[she hands him a match]
Geoff: Thanks.
Bonnie: Matches, marbles, money or women, huh?
Geoff: That's right.
Bonnie: No looking ahead; no tomorrows; just today.
Geoff: That's right. - Geoff: "Oh Judy", "Yes, Judy", and while he never said the phrase "Judy, Judy, Judy" this is the movie the line was parodied from.
- Only Angels Have Wings at the Internet Movie Database
- Only Angels Have Wings at the TCM Movie Database
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