A two-fisted adventure tale set in South America, ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS stars Cary Grant as the tough-talking head of an air freight service operating in the dangerous Andes Mountains. Jean Arthur co-stars as a vacationing showgirl competing with Rita Hayworth for Grant's affections. A potent combination of humour, romance and action, the film was directed by Howard Hawks, the legendary director responsible for Red River, His Girl Friday, Bringing Up Baby, and the original Scarface. A triumph of casting, ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS is one of the best examples of Columbia chief Harry Cohn's skill in developing talent. Cary Grant had just been released from his contract with Fox when Cohn, sensing that the handsome leading man was poised for stardom, turned him into Columbia's most durable star.Jean Arthur was an unexpected veteran of 50 films before Cohn discovered something in her that previous studios had overlooked. Teaming her with director Frank Capra, he created one of the finest come BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES: New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack 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 Barthelmess, and Thomas Mitchell, and hosted by director Cecil B. DeMille Trailer PLUS: An essay by critic Michael Sragow
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