The Tarnished Angels
1957
***
Director: Douglas Sirk
Cast: Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Jack Carson, Robert Middleton, Alan Reed, Alexander Lockwood, Chris Olsen, Robert J. Wilke, Troy Donahue, William Schallert
During the Great Depression, a reporter goes to an airshow and becomes intrigued by a daredevil stunt pilot, and particularly by his beautiful and neglected wife. Douglas Sirk's black and white drama is not one of his best. The setting is captivating and the flying scenes are well made, but the tragic twists in the story are very predictable, and the whole thing seems like much ado about nothing. Based on William Faulkner's 1935 novel Pylon.
