
Only Angels Have Wings(1939)
A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.


“Crackling with drama that will win your cheers...if you can cheer when your heart's in your throat!”
War veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline. Dizzy is fooling with one of the younger pilot's girl-friend and due to this he changes flights with Texas.

James Cagney
Dizzy Davies

Pat O'Brien
Jake L. Lee

June Travis
Tommy Thomas

Stuart Erwin
Texas Clarke

Barton MacLane
Al Stone

Henry Wadsworth
Tay Lawson

Isabel Jewell
Lou Clarke

Martha Tibbetts
Mary Miller Lee

Craig Reynolds
Joe Allen

Dick Purcell
Smiley (as Dick Purcell)
Ceiling Zero is a adventure, drama, romance film released in 1936 exploring themes of texas, pilot. Directed by Howard Hawks, it stars James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, June Travis. War veteran pilots Dizzy Davis, Texas Clark and Jake Lee are working in an airline. Dizzy is fooling with one of the younger pilot's girl-friend and due to this he changes flights with Texas.
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