two heads. Geoff still agrees to take him along. Just before leaving, Bonnie tries to talk Geoff out of going. She takes his gun out of his holster and points it at him. When she realizes that she cannot stop him, she drops the gun on the table, but it accidentally fires, hitting Geoff in the shoulder. Unable to fly, Geoff lets MacPherson take his place. However, MacPherson and the Kid are unable to climb high enough; the plane stalls and drops thousands of feet before leveling off. Geoff tells them to turn around, but they decide to try to fly through the fogged-in pass. In the pass, they encounter a flock of condors. One crashes through the windshield, paralyzing the Kid; another hits the No. 1 engine, setting it on fire. Later the No. 2 engine also catches fire. The Kid tells MacPherson to bail out, but he refuses. He turns around and returns to Barranca, managing to crash-land the burning Trimotor on the field. The Kid dies from a broken neck, but not before telling Geoff what MacPherson did. As a result, MacPherson is finally accepted by the other pilots. Bonnie is torn between leaving and staying, and confronts Geoff in the hope he will ask her to stay. However, with mere hours to spare on the trial period, the weather clears and Geoff has to rush off to secure the all-important contract. Before he goes, he offers to toss a coin to decide: heads, Bonnie stays; tails, she leaves. The coin comes up heads, but Bonnie despairs that this is the result of chance, not love. Geoff leaves her with the coin. She then realizes that it is the Kid's trick coin, dispelling her sadness. Cast Cary Grant as Geoff Carter Jean Arthur as Bonnie Lee Richard Barthelmess as Bat MacPherson Rita Hayworth as Judy MacPherson Thomas Mitchell as "Kid" Dabb Allyn Joslyn as Les Peters Sig Ruman as John "Dutchy" Van Ruyter Victor Kilian as "Sparks" Reynolds John Carroll as "Gent" Shelton Don Barry as "Tex" Gordon Noah Beery Jr. as Joe Souther Manuel Álvarez Maciste as the singer Milissa Sierra as Lily Lucio Villegas as Doctor Pat Flaherty as Mike Pedro Regas as Pancho Pat West as Baldy Production Pre-production and casting The film's original script outline was written by Anne Wigton; the working title originally was Plane No. 4. Howard Hawks re-wrote the film's