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The Tarnished Angels. 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. [5][6] The screenplay by George Zuckerman is based on the 1935 novel Pylon by William Faulkner.
Aug 20, 2013 · The Tarnished Angels, Douglas Sirk‘s 1957 masterpiece, is a film with a thousand mysteries, yet nary an unanswered question; an explicit melodrama and yet a deeply felt examination of repression. It exists somewhat on the continuum of mid-1950s, studio-funded pulp adaptations, high on sex and thrills, yet it sacrifices none of that in also being an extraordinary portrait of loneliness ...
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Aug 5, 2019 · Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz. Douglas Sirk’s black-and-white The Tarnished Angels is his most pessimistic film, a period film of the 1930s that’s a follow-up to Written on the Wind, the quintessential film of the 1950s, which also starred Robert Stack, Rock Hudson and Dorothy Malone. It’s based on William Faulkner’s minor novel Pylon ...
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
Aug 21, 2013 · The beautiful thing about The Tarnished Angels, director Douglas Sirk’s adaptation of William Faulker’s novel Pylon, set during the Great Depression, is that the film remarkably encapsulates the human condition in a mere 90 minutes, using only a handful of characters and locations. Desire, love, greed, avarice, sorrow and tragedy are all present, though the film itself is a departure in ...
Aesthetically The Tarnished Angels trades in Sirk's celebrated use of colour for a striking and sometimes expressionistic monochrome look, appropriate for what plays at times like a head-on collision between romantic melodrama and Germanic film noir. This is echoed in the cloud of impending doom that hangs over the proceedings from an early stage, one as fashioned by tradition as by character ...
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The Tarnished Angels is a 1957 drama directed by Douglas Sirk, based on William Faulkner's novel Pylon. The film stars Rock Hudson as a reporter in 1930s New Orleans who becomes entangled with a group of stunt pilots, leading to complex interpersonal conflicts. Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, and Jack Carson co-star in this exploration of ...
