The Tarnished Angels
“The Book They Said Could Never Be Filmed!”
Drama
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. When newspaper reporter Burke Devlin arrives to do a story on the Shumanns’ act, he quickly falls in love with the beautiful--and neglected--LaVerne.
VIBE
A smoky, desperate haze hangs over this tale of daredevil pilots and the women who love them. It's a visually striking, melancholic look at fading glory and the corrosive nature of unfulfilled dreams, set against a backdrop of roaring engines and doomed romance.
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