What is Only Angels Have Wings / The Big Sky about?

Name: Only Angels Have Wings / The Big Sky
Genre: Action/Adventure,Drama

ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS, 1939, Sony Repertory, 121 min. One of director Howard Hawks’ finest shaggy dog stories focuses on sarcastic Cary Grant as the head of a daredevil South American air mail service. Stranded showgirl Jean Arthur is blindsided by the nonchalance of Grant and his pilots as they face death over rainy, fogbound mountain passes. With Rita Hayworth. THE BIG SKY, 1952, Warner Bros., 141 min. Great, unpretentious storytelling from director Howard Hawks as trappers Kirk Douglas and Dewey Martin, on a keel boat up the Missouri River to trade with the Blackfoot Indians, meet hostile tribes and renegade traders (Jim Davis, et. al.). Arthur Hunnicutt is mountain man Zeb, and half-Indian Elizabeth Threatt is the fierce Blackfoot princess who falls in love with Martin. Preserved with funds provided by Robert Sturm, The Film Foundation and The Celeste Bartos Film Preservation Fund.

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What is Only Angels Have Wings / The Big Sky about?: ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS, 1939, Sony Repertory, 121 min. One of director Howard Hawks’ finest shaggy dog stories focuses on sarcastic Cary Grant as the head of a daredevil South American air mail service. Stranded showgirl Jean Arthur is blindsided by the nonchalance of Grant and his pilots as they face death over rainy, fogbound mountain passes. With Rita Hayworth.

THE BIG SKY, 1952, Warner Bros., 141 min. Great, unpretentious storytelling from director Howard Hawks as trappers Kirk Douglas and Dewey Martin, on a keel boat up the Missouri River to trade with the Blackfoot Indians, meet hostile tribes and renegade traders (Jim Davis, et. al.). Arthur Hunnicutt is mountain man Zeb, and half-Indian Elizabeth Threatt is the fierce Blackfoot princess who falls in love with Martin. Preserved with funds provided by Robert Sturm, The Film Foundation and The Celeste Bartos Film Preservation Fund.