{"id":8262,"date":"2008-07-25T13:32:51","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T17:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8262"},"modified":"2022-10-16T10:31:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T14:31:05","slug":"calling-barranca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8262","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCalling Barranca!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Movie prop” plane found<\/a> – and featured on Antiques Roadshow. The guest on the show, who had found the plane, describes coming across it at a swap meet – and the guy selling it said it was from a movie with a name like “The Wings of an Angel.” The guest decided not to purchase (having never heard of such a movie). And then:<\/p>\n

So as I was walking away he just said, “Oh, the only other thing I know about it is is that Cary Grant starred in the movie.” And as soon as he said that, I knew exactly what movie it was. I knew it was “Only Angels Have Wings.” And I knew that it was a Howard Hawks film. I knew that Jean Arthur and Cary Grant and Rita Hayworth were in it. But what I couldn’t remember was, in the story line, the name of the airline. I ultimately bargained with him, got the price down to $195, and I loaded it in my car and I drove about as fast as I could around the corner to a local bookseller and I ran up the stairs and I found the first biography I could of Cary Grant and I flipped it open to “Only Angels Have Wings,” and there it was, Barranca Airlines.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Turns out it was one of the model planes used in Only Angels Have Wings<\/i>. Jim Emerson blogs about it <\/a>(and also provides a clip of one of the action sequences in the film which still has the power, even to my modern-day eyes, to take my breath away). I love it. “Movie prop”!!<\/p>\n

Here’s a post I wrote about the first 10 minutes of Only Angels Have Wings<\/i><\/a> – a long pantomime through a crazy third-world street … no dialogue really … but man, what atmosphere. What a world is created – immediately.
\n“Who’s Joe?”
\n“Never heard of him.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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