Cary Grant gets to flex his non comedic muscles with great results as Carter, the film relies on Grant to glue the story together which he does with great aplomb. Looking at it from the outside you would think that the film was lining up to be a soft soap romantic fable, but here the emotion is channelled into a sort of character bravado that is flawed - yet something that makes for a viewing experience that draws you in deep with the finely etched characters. Howard Hawks was the perfect man for this film because of his aviation background, the result is a very well crafted character study set in a very small locale. Geoff Carter is the head of a small run down air freight company in Barranca, one of his best pilots (and friend) is killed, but this is merely only one of the problems he has to deal with as ex flames, potential new sweethearts, and dissension in the camp, all fuse together to test him to the limit. And Cary Grant was far more successful at a Bogart type role than Bogey was in doing Sabrina. Only Angels Have Wings is both a good character study and has a lot of drama as well. Howard Hawks got great performances out of Grant and Arthur, expanding the range of both these talented people.
Arthur was also upset that the future glamor queen of America would get all the notice. Arthur found that out later on and was far more cordial as was Rita.
Both of them are retiring types and each thought the other was being snooty to her. According to a recent biography of Jean Arthur, she and Rita did not get along so well. She plays the wife of disgraced flier Richard Barthelmess and one of Cary Grant's old flames. Rita's in this one as well, in the first substantial part in an A picture. A part that Rita Hayworth would play to perfection later on. He also cast the leads against type, Cary Grant as a cynical, existential Bogart like hero and Jean Arthur as the wise cracking show girl stranded in the tropics. First of all he wrote the story for Only Angels Have Wings and made sure to put in enough action and he took the action away from the control room of that small airline in an unnamed South American country. Hawks seems to have made the corrections for the deficiencies of Ceiling Zero in this film. In my review for IMDb I said it was a photographed stage play.
The former was adapted from the stage play by Spig Wead and for whatever reason Warner Brothers did not put in the kind of production values the A list cast from that film should have warranted. The best film that Howard Hawks's Only Angels Have Wings can be compared to is Hawks's own Ceiling Zero. In all, a solid adventure-romance tale, and I'm shocked it gets so little attention on this website, with under 20 reviews as of my writing. Hayworth's role, one of her first, was not that much. Ruman and Barthelmess were especially good in their supporting roles. I say "generally" because there are a few dry spots, mainly Arthur's continued pining over Grant, but most of it fun to watch and it gets you involved in the story. What puts this a notch above other adventure tales of its day are: 1 - excellent cinematography 2 - interesting aerial scenes with neat-looking planes flying in the fog and around and above the treacherous Andes Mountains 3 - a top- notch cast featuring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth, Richard Barthelmess, Thomas Mitchell, Allyn Joslyn, Sig Ruman, John Carroll and Noah Beery Jr., and 4 - a story that is generally interesting.
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