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11 January 1958 (USA)
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Story of a friendship between an eccentric journalist and a daredevil barnstorming pilot. full summary | add synopsis
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THE TARNISHED ANGELS (Douglas Sirk, 1958) ***
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Rock Hudson | ... | Burke Devlin | |
| Robert Stack | ... | Roger Shumann | |
| Dorothy Malone | ... | LaVerne Shumann | |
| Jack Carson | ... | Jiggs | |
| Robert Middleton | ... | Matt Ord | |
| Alan Reed | ... | Colonel T. J. Fineman | |
| Alexander Lockwood | ... | Sam Hagood | |
| Christopher Olsen | ... | Jack Shumann (as Chris Olsen) | |
| Robert J. Wilke | ... | Hank | |
| Troy Donahue | ... | Frank Burnham | |
| William Schallert | ... | Ted Baker | |
| Betty Utey | ... | Dancing girl | |
| Phil Harvey | ... | Telegraph editor | |
| Steve Drexel | ... | Young Man | |
| Eugene Borden | ... | Claude Mollet |
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Pylon (USA) (working title)
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91 min
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Douglas Sirk reportedly stated in an interview this was the best film he directed.
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Anachronisms: Despite the fact that the story is taking place in the early 1930s, all of Dorothy Malone's clothing, hairstyles and make-up are strictly 1957, the year the picture was filmed.
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Featured in Acting for Douglas Sirk: 'Written on the Wind' and 'The Tarnished Angels' Remembered (2008) (V)
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Though exchanging his usual glossy urban surroundings for a rough open-air environment dealing as it does with vagrant members of an air show/race (which is perhaps why it was shot in black-and-white) this typical Sirk effort is particularly redolent of his Teutonic background: powerful (indeed often histrionic), moodily-lit and with performances to match (allowing Rock Hudson one of his finest dramatic showcases, most effective towards the end when he gives his newspaper editor boss a piece of his mind). Incidentally, its three stars Hudson, Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone had just come off the same director's WRITTEN ON THE WIND (1956); Malone is the woman admired by virtually the entire male cast including her egocentric spouse (ace flyer Stack), his long-suffering mechanic (Jack Carson), hated entrepreneur (Robert Middleton) and, the latest recruit, honest (read alcoholic) reporter Hudson. Also on hand is a young boy, picked on over his doubtful parentage, whom Hudson befriends and offers hospitality to his whole family (eventually tagging along himself after being fired from his job). Malone opens her heart to him one night and he decides to help when Stack has no qualms about his wife ingratiating herself with Middleton for his sake over the acquisition of a new plane (Stack's original vehicle had been destroyed in a crash which also killed Middleton's protégé, Troy Donahue!). After Stack himself perishes in another race and a gloomy luncheon is thrown in his honor, Hudson arranges for Malone and her son to start a new life elsewhere.