Tarnished Angels Movie Review 1957

Reporter Burke Devlin (Hudson) is writing a story for the local New Orleans paper about a tormented trio of air circus barmstormers. A former WWI ace, Roger Shumann (Stack) cares more about flying than he does his sizzling wife Laverne (Malone), who's loved-from-afar by loyal mechanic Jiggs (Carson). When Roger's plane cracks up, he uses his wife to obtain use of an experimental aircraft in order to win a race--and brings disaster crashing around them all. Good action, fine cast. Based on William Faulkner's 1930 novel "Pylon."

Distribution

Universal Studios Home Video, 100 Universal City Plz., Universal City, CA 91608-9955, Phone: (818)777-1000, Fax: (818)866-1483, URL: http://www.universalstudios.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on VHS
Running time 91 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Airborne, Front Page, Marriage, Books to Film: William Faulkner

Screenplay

George Zuckerman

Cast

Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Jack Carson, Robert Middleton, Troy Donahue, Alan Reed, Robert J. Wilke, William Schallert

Cinematography

Irving Glassberg

Director

Douglas Sirk

Music

Frank Skinner

Producer

Albert Zugsmith, Universal Pictures