Other things also have wings, including birds, airplanes, moths, pterodactyls, Voltron, the White House, and the NBC midweek comedy lineup for … Jean Arthur is Bonnie Lee, a chorus girl passing through who decides she can't leave - like a lot of women in the past, she's falling for Carter. "Only Angels Have Wings" is the story of mail carriers who fly often in bad conditions through a perilous mountain pass. It is not true that only angels have wings. ‎Watch trailers, read customer and critic reviews, and buy Only Angels Have Wings directed by Howard Hawks for $12.99. Only Angels Have Wings is a powerful character study, and director Hawks and his fine, predominantly male cast carefully develop the personalities of an interesting collection of characters. Yet this transfer, which was "remastered at 24-bit from the original 35 mm soundtrack negative," rises to the challenge, supplying clean, clear tones that thrust us into the action.

Only Angels Have Wings Synopsis: When the ship San Luis makes a stop at the port of Barranca, to deliver mailbags and load bananas, cabaret singer Bonnie Lee … With a frank attitude towards death and a romantic yet melancholy view of life on the edge, it’s an existentially tough work of blunt philosophy. Because 'Only Angels Have Wings' doesn't have a music score, the LPCM mono track has little to hide behind in terms of imperfections like hiss, pops, and crackles. Only Angels Have Wings (1939) Like Carter, Hawks simply gets on with the job that has to be done and, being very versatile, adapts his methods according to the problems at hand. In Only Angels Have Wings, the film-makers essentially ditch the notion of a single linear narrative in favour of a series of superb (dramatic and entertaining) set-pieces, which nevertheless drive forward the film’s central theme of the battle between the male of the species’ thirst for excitement vs. the more considered instinct for humanity. They thrive on the excitement and danger. Though much of the dialogue is predictable, the story is strong, the acting is outstanding, and Hawks's cameras move with fluid grace through the confining sets. Their boss is Geoff Carter (Cary Grant). Only Angels Have Wings is one of the standouts of [Hawks’] impressive career, but also one of his most sobering films. Only Angels Have Wings is a 1939 adventure drama directed by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant and Jean Arthur.. Geoff Carter (Grant) is the boss of a rinky-dink airline, based in the fictional South American port town of Barranca, that routinely carries mail and supplies through the Andes mountain passes into the interior. When fog threatens a pilot’s landing, Hawks wisely focuses, mainly in close-up, on worried faces watching the sky, letting the plane engine on the soundtrack do most of the narrative work.