Tarnished Angels (1957)
Average Rating: 9.3/10
Reviews Counted: 5
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 0
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William Faulkner's novel Pylon was optioned by Universal producer Albert Zugsmith, who used it as the source for his 1957 production The Tarnished Angels. Robert Stack is a disillusioned World War One ace eking out a living as a barnstorming pilot/parachutist during the early 1930s. New Orleans newspaperman Rock Hudson runs across Stack at a two-bit carnival. He becomes fascinated with Stack's fall from grace, and latches onto him. As he is drawn into Stack's iconoclastic, individualistic
Jan 11, 1958 Wide
May 14, 1996
Cast
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Rock Hudson
Burke Devlin -
Robert Stack
Roger Shumann -
Dorothy Malone
LaVerne Shumann -
Jack Carson
Jiggs -
Robert Middleton
Matt Ord -
Alan Reed Sr.
Col. Fineman -
Troy Donahue
Frank Burnham -
Alexander Lockwood
Sam Hagood -
Robert J. Wilke
Hank -
William Schallert
Ted Baker -
Betty Utey
Dancing girl -
Phil Harvey
Telegraph editor -
Steve Drexel
Young Man -
Eugene Borden
Claude Mollet -
Stephen Ellis
Mechanic -
Chris Olson
Jack Shumann
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All Critics (7) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (0)
An enduring philosophical strain of proto-feminist endurance in a land that's both made and menaced by its intrepid warriors.
Given limited budget and technology, the airplane races are well staged over a short oval course around the striped pylons.
Set in the Depression era, this tale of daredevils doing air showsand their nomad lifestyle is one of cult director Douglas Sirk's very best films, and also the finest screen adaptation of a William Faulkner novel.
A seething melodrama about a family of daredevil pilots.
Audience Reviews for Tarnished Angels
Review for this and [b]The Bride Wore Black[/b] tomorrow. Because then I'll be done with finals and home from school. Needless to say, I think this is my favorite Sirk film so far.
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Foreign Titles
- The Tarnished Angels (DE)
- The Tarnished Angels (1957) (UK)


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One thing is that there's still an awful lot of important films I haven't seen. At my age I should be farther along and I'll be working on that from this point on.
The most confounding film I've seen lately has been "Broken Lizard's Club Dread". I had been wanting to check these guys out but now I'm confused as to what I saw. This wasn't a spoof of slasher movies so much as a slasher movie with jokes. It didn't help that the entire cast played the script so seriously the humor mainly fell flat even when it was obvious. Now I probably have to see "Super Troopers" to try to figure out these guys.
I don't watch much porn these days but I saw a good one last night, "Dark Chambers" starring Marilyn Chambers. It's a 2000 film so Marilyn is a bit bigger than she was in her "Green Door" days but she's still unbelievably sexy. There was a good variety of female looks in the movie as well, Asia Carrera, cute and hot as ever, another old-timer Erica Boyer also packing a few more pounds but still enthusiastic and a woman I saw for the first time, Lauren Montgomery. a strikingly beautiful blonde with puffy natural breasts. The movie was directed by Veronica Hart who's really learned how to shoot sex scenes for maximum effect, espcially the orgy scene at the end of the picture.
Later today, I'll celebrate after a fashion by eating out, then come back home and watch "Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders", which hopefully will be as mind-blowing as I've heard.