The Tarnished Angels
The Book They Said Could Never Be Filmed!
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 31 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: July 1, 2014
- Originally Released: 1957
- Label: Universal
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Rock Hudson, Dorothy Malone & Robert Stack | |
| Performer: | Jack Carson, Troy Donahue, Robert Middleton, Robert J. Wilke, Alan Reed, Christopher Olsen & William Schallert | |
| Directed by | Douglas Sirk | |
| Edited by | Russell F. Schoengarth | |
| Screenplay by | George Zuckerman | |
| Original story by | William Faulkner | |
| Composition by | Frank Skinner | |
| Art Direction by | Alexander Golitzen & Alfred Sweeney | |
| Produced by | Albert Zugsmith | |
| Director of Photography: | Irving Glassberg |
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Rating: 3/4 --
Sirk, known for his rich use of colors, opted to employ black-and-white for The Tarnished Angels -- it was a sound and strategic choice, further amplifying the overcast quality that permeates these characters' lives.
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Film Frenzy
Rating: 4/5 --
Sirk mines sombre poetry from these lives, though a tacked-on happy-ish ending lets him down.
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Total Film
Rating: 4/4 --
An unsung masterpiece.
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Combustible Celluloid
Given limited budget and technology, the airplane races are well staged over a short oval course around the striped pylons.
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
One of Douglas Sirk's masterworks.
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Observer (UK)
As a purely physical spectacle, the movie is worth anyone's time... that style was substance, or rather that style was philosophy, and he conveys emotions through this mise-en-scène as substantially as through acting, dialogue or plot.
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PopMatters
Rating: A --
Set in the Depression era, this tale of daredevils doing air showsand their nomad lifestyle is one of cult director Douglas Sirk's very best films, and also the finest screen adaptation of a William Faulkner novel.
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Description by OLDIES.com:
Set in the 1930s Depression era during Mardi Gras in New Orleans, The Tarnished Angels covers three days in the lives of a trio of flying-circus performers, headlined by former WWI fighter-pilot hero Roger Shumann (Robert Stack) and his beautiful blonde wife, Laverne (Dorothy Malone). Romantic complications arise when newspaper reporter Burke Devlin (Rock Hudson) falls in love with Laverne while covering their daredevil aerial show. Based on the William Faulkner novel Pylon, this screen adaptation was a personal favorite of director Douglas Sirks and is considered by many to be a masterpiece equal to his Academy Award-winning Written on the Wind (1956), which also starred Hudson, Malone and Stack in the key roles.
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- Sales Rank: 37,495
- UPC: 025192052293
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