REGENT THEATRE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20114, 7 December 1939, Page 3

REGENT THEATRE

CARY GRANT AND JEAN ARTHUR IN “ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS” Packed with adventure and romance. “Only Angels Have Wings,” a" Columbia production, which is a gripping ancl highly emotional portrayal of love and living under the ■constant menace of Nature's elements, delighted a crowded house at the Regent Theatre last night. Story, characterisation, appeals to tire emotions —in fact all the chief principles of cinema entertainment—are furnished to a high degree in this picture. Howard ITawks not only produced and directed “Only Angels Have Wings”—his first film for Columbia—lbut also supplied the story on which the screen play is based. The result is a production which has universal appeal. Seldom have such thrills of aviation been shown on any screen; seldom have such characterisations been blended in a story having spectacle, comedy, feeling and suspense in appealing proportions. Aviation supplies the background to the story, the locale of which is in a little banana port in South America, the starting point of a projected air transport line. The picture depends for spectacle and thrill upon the dangers of flying "crates” over the Andes Mountains and battling against storms, The principal acting honours go to Cary Grant and Jean Arthur, the stars in that line picture, "You Can't Take it With You,” which won the Academy Award. Grant’s work in the role of the hard head of the aeroplane firm who drives his flyers to almost suicidal trips in old ’planes, adds to his already impressive list of successes. Depicting a series of extraordinary, yet not impossible events, “Only Angels Have Wings” is a picture that should be placed on the picturegoers’ “must-see” list.