Only Angels Have Wings

An amazing adventure film in which the adventure is primarily confined to a shabby saloon, this Grant-Arthur vehicle clearly bears the mark of director Howard Hawks. Grant, the head of a broken-down air freight company, sends courageous pilots over the treacherous Andes Mountains in Peru. Arthur becomes involved with one such pilot, Noah Beery, Jr., then quickly switches her attention to the hardboiled Grant. Several other pilots (Joslyn, Carroll, and Barry) are much taken with Arthur, but she only has eyes for the all-business Grant, who fails to return her affection. Enter Barthelmess, a pilot who tarnished his reputation in an accident years earlier in which ano...