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Article: Aviator Hawks lent an air of authenticity to 'Wings'.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- December 29, 2006
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Byline: Michael Wilmington
Dec. 29--One of the great Hollywood adventure/romance movies, 1939's "Only Angels Have Wings" is set in a world of fog-shrouded mountains, daredevil aviators and witty machismo, among a hard-boiled clique of American air mail and freight fliers who pilot dangerous routes through the Andes. Cary Grant is the fashion-plate, nerves-of-steel boss-man Geoff Carter; John Carroll and Allyn Joslyn are wise-cracking flyboys. Richard Barthelmess is disgraced pilot Bat McPherson, trying to redeem himself; Thomas Mitchell is Geoff's best friend, Kid, who's been grounded because of approaching blindness--and whose brother was killed in a crash ...