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The Tarnished Angels is a 1957 black-and-white American CinemaScope drama film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Jack Carson, and Robert Middleton. The screenplay by George Zuckerman is based on the 1935 novel Pylon by William Faulkner.
The Tarnished Angels: Directed by Douglas Sirk. With Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Jack Carson. Story of the fraught friendship between an eccentric journalist and a team of daredevil flying acrobats.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Douglas Sirk
- 1957-12-31
Jan 22, 2013 · The Tarnished Angels isn’t helped by the fact that it is adapted from William Faulkner’s Pylon, a novel that I find almost unreadable and which a recent critic called “a seething melodrama about a family of daredevil pilots.”
Jul 17, 2013 · One of legendary director Douglas Sirk's most cherished passion projects, this spectacular adaptation of William Faulkner's Pylon has risen in stature to bec...
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- Eurekaentertainment
In this spectacular adaptation of Faulkner’s Pylon, Roger Shumann is a disillusioned WWI ace eking out a living as a barnstorming pilot/parachutist during the early 30s. New Orleans newspaperman Burke Devlin meets Shumann at a two-bit carnival and becomes fascinated with his fall from grace.
Page 1 of 6, 11 total items. Heroic World War I pilot Roger Shumann (Robert Stack) is all but forgotten by the 1930s, but flying is all he knows, so he takes work as an air show stuntman....
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- Drama
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Synopsis. In New Orleans in the 1930s, mild-mannered reporter Burke Devlin stops young Jack Shumann from fighting with an older man who has questioned Jack's parentage, cruelly suggesting that instead of famed World War I pilot and current plane racer Roger Shumann, mechanic Jiggs might be Jack's real father.
