Starring: Pat O’Brien, Ralph Bellamy, Gloria Stuart, Slim Summerville, Lilian Bond, Russell Hopton

Hosted by Caroline Golum and Cristina Cacioppo

Before Howard Hawks’ aviation melodrama Only Angels Have Wings, director John Ford hoisted Depression-era audiences up, up, and away to a cockpit-level view of airmail delivery! Ford’s trademark penchant for the American West provides a perilous backdrop to the surprisingly sensational workaday lives of thrill-junkie postal pilots, centering on a reckless daredevil who won’t let anything – a pal, a dame, or even the Christmas shipping rush! – clip his flight feathers.