28 Replies to “1935 Wings in the Dark”

  1. Never saw this before.  It is one of the Cary Grant films you've posted.  This one is of tremendous interest for me and it has raised my curiosity about a number of things.  I think it has great performances from both Grant and Loy.  I wonder if Howard Hawks had seen this.  I know he saw The Awful Truth and that led to his putting Grant in Bringing Up Baby.  I can imagine his seeing this helped in his conceiving of Only Angels Have Wings.  I was well aware of how much Ceiling Zero had shaped OAHW but Wing in the Dark brings in other elements.  Hawks was a screen play writer in the mid 20s before he became a director and thought long and hard about what made a good story.  If you look at WitD and CZ, you can see what Hawks thought he could do better and did.  To me, OAHW is Hawks most perfect film of the 30s.  This film proved Grant's dramatic abilities was just what Hawks needed for CG's role in OAHW.

  2. Thank you. You have made my day. I don't remember this early Grant / Loy film. Even Myrna never mentioned it. We only ever spoke of Blandings and Bobbysoxer with Cary. I knew them both from 1961 until their respective deaths. They were very important people in my love. Wonderful people each in their way.
    What amused me was they had made so many films they really didn't remember them all. I had recently seen her in The Prize Fighter and the Lady. She had no recollection of the film. I was inwardly stunned. I realised that evening speaking with Myrna during dinner that for her it was work and they went from one film to another maybe only viewing the film once. I on the other hand watched all the films I could on tele as many times as they were shown.
    What struck me when this film began is that Myrna had Top billing over Cary. This was very rare and showed how famous she already was but that Cary was still building his career.

  3. I am so grateful, that you have posted this great movie. Thank you so mutch, its a pleasure to watch Clary Grant, he was the most handsome of Hollywoods men, and a great actor.

  4. if this was made today it would be so cheesy! but things were made with class beauty and quality back then. all up until I came along!! ; P

  5. Good movie. For airplane buffs, Cary Grant's plane was a Lockheed Sirius 8A. The plane in the movie would be destroyed 5 years later (1940) in a mid air collision. Myrna Loy's Moscow flight plane was a Lockheed Vega 5B, this plane was damage while filming "Only Angels have Wings" and scrapped in 1938.

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