Stanley Donen’s sleek, chic, Hitchockian escapade sends Hepburn’s jet-setting American hopscotching across Europe followed by a charming Grant and a trio of less-charming criminals.
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Cary Grant in ‘Only Angels Have Wings’ on Criterion Channel
If you love movies, I mean really love the glory of Hollywood moviemaking and star power and the joys of wondrous stories, then you surely Only Angels Have Wings (1939), the quintessential Howard Hawks adventure of male bonding and tough love in a world where there may be no tomorrow. If you haven’t fallen for […]
Howard Hawks’s ‘His Girl Friday’ on Amazon Prime Video
His Girl Friday (1940) is based on the rapid-fire newspaper comedy The Front Page, originally a snappy, cynical, double-barrel Broadway hit by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur (themselves veteran reporters) and then a 1931 film directed by Lewis Milestone, with Pat O’Brien and Adolph Menjou in the lead roles. Barely a decade later, Howard Hawks […]