![]() It was too stressful always wondering if he’d come home. They were once together, but Judy said she could not be with a pilot. The catastrophe from Geoff’s past that returns with Bat is Bat’s wife, Judy (played by Rita Hayworth). Bat is desperate for work, though, so Geoff assigns him the most dangerous missions. He bailed out without his co-pilot, who happened to be Kid’s younger brother of Kid. He’s had a hard time securing work since, years before, he was the pilot of a plane going down. The dangerous job and their lives in Barranca require them to stay focused, hoping to avoid the next catastrophe.Ĭatastrophe is a fact of life for people like Geoff and Kid, and the reminder of past catastrophes arrives with the next pilot, Bat MacPherson (played by Richard Barthelmess). Just because they move on doesn’t mean they don’t care deeply. Smith Goes to Washington, Gone with the Wind, and Stagecoach, in a role that won him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor) helps Bonnie understand the situation a bit better. “Kid” (played by Thomas Mitchell, who that year also played in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mr. When one of the men, flying dangerously in order to make good on his promise to take Bonnie to dinner, dies in a plane crash, Geoff, to Bonnie’s eyes, moves on quickly and coldly and cruelly, prepping for the next flight. ![]() Geoff, meanwhile, is gruff and practical. The young pilots hit on her, anxious to get their work done so they can enjoy some time with her before her ship leaves again the next morning. When Bonnie’s ship ports in Barranca, she steps off to explore the town a bit, eventually running into Geoff and his pilots. It’s obviously a dangerous job, but perhaps, much like Bonnie Lee (played by Jean Arthur), we don’t appreciate all that entails at first. ![]() The airline is making a go at a lucrative government contract, which they should secure if they can demonstrate that they can reliably deliver the mail, even in bad weather. There, Geoff Carter (played by Cary Grant) manages a startup airline that carries mail through the dangerous high passes in the Andes. The film takes place in the fictional South American port town Barranca. ![]() Yet Only Angels Have Wings presents a more threatened romance, one that must always be wary of crashing back to earth. Bringing Up Baby and His Girl Friday perfectly utilized Grant’s penchant for screwball comedy romances, and I sat down expecting something similar in Only Angels Have Wings, especially as Grant’s co-star and romantic interest was the very funny screwball actress Jean Arthur. I had not seen Only Angels Have Wings before watching the new Criterion Collection edition that is available today, and didn’t know what to expect. That was the year Howard Hawks teamed with Cary Grant for Only Angels Have Wings, the second in a string of three masterpieces they’d make together that also included 1938’s Bringing Up Baby and 1940’s His Girl Friday. Actors and directors were churning out work with seeming gusto and imagination. Smith Goes to Washington, Ninotchka, Gunga Din, Goodbye Mr. Often called the greatest year in Hollywood history - both because of the ground-breaking films produced and because the studio system was running at peak efficiency and momentum - 1939 brought us may of the films we think of when we think of the Hollywood Golden Age: Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Stagecoach, Mr. Only Angels Have Wings d. Howard Hawks (1939) The Criterion Collection Spine: #806 Blu-ray Release Date: ApScreen captures below are taken from The Criterion Collection Blu-ray disc.
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