Movie for a Sunday afternoon: "Only Angels Have Wings"(1939)

You Tube ^ | 1939 | Howard Hawks

[ReformationFan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXRyZe-vsJ8&list=PL9pRcaYn5Sdw8eyH6C0ZjQD1vG_E-jtGl&index=1&feature=plpp_video

This week's feature is Howard Hawks' excellent 1939 classic adventure about courageous mail pilots in South America and the women who love them. Cary Grant exceeds in a John Wayne/Humphrey Bogart-type role as their leader and the beautiful Rita Hayworth impresses in one of her earliest performances as his ex-flame. Definitely one of Hawks' best and the finest of his 5 films starring Mr. Grant.

[ReformationFan]

Both the original release trailer and a fan tribute to the film using the Righteous Bros. "You've Lost That Loving Feeling" are at the end of the youtube playlist.

"Calling Barranca"

[Talisker]

Ding! Ding! Ding!

“Only Angels Have Wings” is one of my favorite movies of all time. Or as I think of it, “Calling Barranca.”

It’s best on a rainy afternoon, or late at night.

It was a WWII-prep movie. If you squint, you can se that it’s a war movie, without the war. I think it was made to start to get across the mindset necessary for Americans to deal with WWII. A lot of Bogey movies are like that, too.

I don’t know why it takes me away, it just does. I also got to see it on a big screen once, in an old theater. Loved it!

[jimfree]

Saw it on the 19 inch screen for the first time in the last year or two. Great flick.

[TigersEye]

It’s a great movie. Saw it for the first time just a few years ago. The dialogue is just fantastic.

[kingcanuteus]

Hayworth is nice, but Jean Arthur is the real hottie in this movie, and an excellent comedienne.

[ReformationFan]

One could say Jean is OAHW’s Mary Ann while Rita Hayworth is the film’s Ginger.

[ReformationFan]

Cool! OAHW would be a good film to see on a big screen in an old theater. I got to see “Casablanca” that way for the first time. And your point about OAHW being a war movie without the war is on-target. It and “Raiders of the Lost Ark” were the inspiration for the later TV series “Tales of the Gold Monkey.”