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Only Angels Have Wings

BIG As The Fog-Shrouded Andes!

1939 · 2h 1m · Approved Adventure, Drama, Romance
Directed by Howard Hawks

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A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.

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Howard Hawks's stirring tale of a fledgling airmail service that traverses the Andes from a strip in a South American banana port is the ultimate workplace dramedy.

Michael Sragow, New Yorker
Fresh

It's a fairly good melodrama, nothing more.

Frank S. Nugent, New York Times

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