The Tarnished Angels
Overview
In THE TARNISHED ANGELS, based on William Faulkner's novel PYLON, Rock Hudson plays Burke Devlin, a lowly journalist in New Orleans who is chronicling a stunt-flying exhibition. Although the star of the show is World War I daredevil Roger Shumann (Robert Stack), Devlin finds himself reserving more and more column inches for Shumann's parachutist wife, LaVerne (Dorothy Malone). Director Douglas Sirk shows consummate artistry in his onscreen reunion of the stars of WRITTEN ON THE WIND. Hudson, Stack, and Malone all continue to serve him well, contributing performances seething with the blunted desire and unfulfilled aspirations of their psychically scarred characters. The film is shot in appropriately bleak gray monochrome. Faulkner ranked THE TARNISHED ANGELS first among the many Hollywood adaptations of his novels, and German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder lauded the film's stunning emotional force, saying, "I have rarely felt fear and loneliness so much as in this film."
Awards:
Main Cast & Crew:
Douglas Sirk - Director
Rock Hudson
Robert Stack
Dorothy Malone
Jack Carson
Robert Middleton
Alan Reed
Alexander Lockwood
Chris Olsen
Robert J. Wilke
Troy Donahue
Details
- Format: DVD (Manufactured on Demand, Black & White, NTSC Format)
- Run Time: 91
- Color Format: B&W
- UPC: 025192052293
- Genre: DRAMA
- Rating: NR
- Release Date: July 2014
Movie Reviews
Notes:
Shot in Cinemascope.
Reviews:
"Sirk here uses the full range of his technique, from the disorienting profusion of mirrors and frames within frames to cutaway images that comment bitterly, even cruelly, on the situation of the characters....This is a bravura filmmaking in the service of a haunting vision..." - 11/13/2010 New York Times
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