Synopsis
Only Angels Have Wings (1939) is Howard Hawks's aviation adventure-romance you can watch online on iFILM, with Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, and a very young Rita Hayworth. Grant plays Jeff Carter, who runs a threadbare mail-delivery airline on South America's Pacific coast. His pilots fly the fog-covered Andes in planes that shouldn't still be airborne, because the contract is the only income anyone has.
A traveling entertainer, Bonnie Lee (Arthur), washes up in port between ships. She and Jeff start something neither of them will admit to. Then a disgraced pilot (Richard Barthelmess) arrives with his wife — Hayworth — and the group dynamics get a lot more loaded.
Hawks shot the Andes entirely on a Columbia backlot and made it feel like open sky. Arthur and Grant have the kind of friction-charged back-and-forth that screwball comedies spent a decade trying to replicate. Watch Only Angels Have Wings (1939) online on iFILM.
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