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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.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Douglas Sirk
- 1957-12-31
Page 1 of 6, 11 total items. Heroic World War I pilot Roger Shumann (Robert Stack) is all but forgotten by the 1930s, but flying is all he knows, so he takes work as an air show stuntman....
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- Rock Hudson
- Douglas Sirk
- Drama
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.
Perhaps Douglas Sirk’s most underrated film (possibly because it’s in ravishing black and white, not lurid colour) and certainly one of his greatest, this adaptation of William Faulkner’s novel Pylon focuses on a reporter (Rock Hudson) fascinated by a group of stunt fliers striving to get by in the American South after the First World War.
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.
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Based on a novel by George Zuckerman, the film follows a barnstorming pilot and his wife in the 1930s. A reporter falls in love with the wife, but faces the challenges of their dangerous lifestyle and past.
