Thundering drama about aviators set in the Andes where encounters an aviation company , Barranca Airways , run by Gary Grant and in which each day a rendezvous with peril and each night a meeting with romance. Thrilling as love born amid a thousand fabulous adventures ! Romance as glorious as the towering Andes ! Powerful as a tropical storm ! Big as the Fog-shrouded Andes ! 1939´s Greatest Screen adventure ! Against the mighty tapestry of the snow-capped Andes , a breathtaking modern romance is born !
An adventure drama movie with action , thrills, suspense , dangerous aerial scenes and love stories . This exciting film focus on the group of people living and working in a small banana republic , containing the basic elements of the Howard Hawks's style films. As the brave team of flyers have to fly over the perilous Andes , hemmed in by impassable mountains , fog and blizzards , as the personal and work ethics of this little crew become magnified to epic proportions . Really , being a limited epic because the crew and flyers are played out in the confined space of the Dutchman's bar , the more claustrophobic due to these men are aviators and need the open sky . Gary Grat is very good , as always , playing in his usual style , while Jean Arthur is fine as the attractive adventurer who falls for him , being accompanied by a fabulous support cast such as gorgeous Rita Hayworth , Richard Barthelmess , Thomas Mitchell , Sig Ruman , Victor Kilian , John Carroll , Noah Beery Jr , Don Barry , among others.
The motion picture was competently directed by the great master Howard Hawks . He directed all kinds of genres with intelligence and skillness enough , making some masterpieces . Hawks made Wartime : Air Force , Sergeant York ; Westerns : Barbary Coast , Big Sky , The Outlaw , Rio Bravo , Red River , El Dorado Rio Lobo ; Comedy : His Girl friday , Bringing up Baby , Ball of Fire , Gentlemen prefer Blondes , Monkey Business ; Noir genre : Scarface , Criminal Code, Big Sleep, To Have or Have not , and Adventure : Hatari, Only angels have wings . The flick will appeal to Gary Grant , Jean Arthur and Rta Hayworth fans . This is a mythical and epic drama at his best.
An adventure drama movie with action , thrills, suspense , dangerous aerial scenes and love stories . This exciting film focus on the group of people living and working in a small banana republic , containing the basic elements of the Howard Hawks's style films. As the brave team of flyers have to fly over the perilous Andes , hemmed in by impassable mountains , fog and blizzards , as the personal and work ethics of this little crew become magnified to epic proportions . Really , being a limited epic because the crew and flyers are played out in the confined space of the Dutchman's bar , the more claustrophobic due to these men are aviators and need the open sky . Gary Grat is very good , as always , playing in his usual style , while Jean Arthur is fine as the attractive adventurer who falls for him , being accompanied by a fabulous support cast such as gorgeous Rita Hayworth , Richard Barthelmess , Thomas Mitchell , Sig Ruman , Victor Kilian , John Carroll , Noah Beery Jr , Don Barry , among others.
The motion picture was competently directed by the great master Howard Hawks . He directed all kinds of genres with intelligence and skillness enough , making some masterpieces . Hawks made Wartime : Air Force , Sergeant York ; Westerns : Barbary Coast , Big Sky , The Outlaw , Rio Bravo , Red River , El Dorado Rio Lobo ; Comedy : His Girl friday , Bringing up Baby , Ball of Fire , Gentlemen prefer Blondes , Monkey Business ; Noir genre : Scarface , Criminal Code, Big Sleep, To Have or Have not , and Adventure : Hatari, Only angels have wings . The flick will appeal to Gary Grant , Jean Arthur and Rta Hayworth fans . This is a mythical and epic drama at his best.