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Only angels have wings [dvd videorecording]
Title:
Only angels have wings [dvd videorecording]
Author:
Hawks, Howard, 1896-1977, film director.
ISBN:
9781681431314
Edition:
Special edition.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in..
Series:
Criterion collection ; 806
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 806.
General Note:
Title from container.
DVD release of the 1939 motion picture.
Widescreen.
Special features: Audio excerpts from a 1972 conversation between filmmakers Howard hawks and Peter Bogdanovich ; new interview with film critic David Thomson ; Howard Hawks and his aviation movies, a new program featuring film scholars Craig Barron and Ben Burtt ; Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the film from 1939, starring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth, Richard Barethelmess, and Thomas Mitchell, and hosted by director Cecil B. DeMille ; trailer ; essay by critic Michael Sragow.
Abstract:
A traveling entertainer gets more than she bargained for during a stopover in a South American port town. There she meets a handsome yet aloof daredevil pilot, who runs an airmail company, staring down death while servicing towns in treacherous mountain terrain. Both attracted to and repelled by his romantic sense of danger, she decides to stay on, despite his protestations.
Reading Level:
MPAA rating: Not rated.
Geographic Term:
Added Title:
Only angels have wings DVD.
