The Tarnished Angels

1957 · 91 min · EN · NR · 6.7 (77 votes)

Dir. Douglas Sirk · Starring Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Jack Carson, Robert Middleton, William Schallert · Music Frank Skinner

“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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