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The Tarnished Angels is a 1957 black-and-white American CinemaScope drama film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Jack Carson, and Robert Middleton. The screenplay by George Zuckerman is based on the 1935 novel Pylon by William Faulkner.
The Tarnished Angels: Directed by Douglas Sirk. With Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Jack Carson. Story of the fraught friendship between an eccentric journalist and a team of daredevil flying acrobats.
A 1958 drama film directed by Douglas Sirk, based on a William Faulkner novel, about a disillusioned WWI pilot and his troubled marriage. Critics and audiences praise the film's style, performances and themes, but some find the dialogue overblown.
A film about a flying ace and his wife who perform stunt aerobatics in the 1930s. A reporter befriends them and gets involved in their troubled family life and business.
Synopsis. In New Orleans in the 1930s, mild-mannered reporter Burke Devlin stops young Jack Shumann from fighting with an older man who has questioned Jack's parentage, cruelly suggesting that instead of famed World War I pilot and current plane racer Roger Shumann, mechanic Jiggs might be Jack's real father.
Jan 22, 2013 · A curator's notes on Sirk's 1958 adaptation of Faulkner's novel about a family of daredevil pilots, starring Rock Hudson and Dorothy Malone. The film is compared with Sirk's other melodramas and the social context of the 1950s.
Overview. In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot at aerial stunt shows while his wife, LaVerne, works as a parachutist.
