The Tarnished Angels

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10/10/2023 Well, in my opinion, Dorothy Malone and Jack Carson were the winners in this movie? They both did an outstanding job highly recommend it, James Welch, Henderson, Arkansas, October 10, 2023. See more Zazoo909 C @RT70598408 07/02/2023 "The Tarnished Angels" sets us up for an interesting ride and the stakes are suitably high. But the overblown dialogue steals us away from experiencing the story, and instead forces our focus on the writers' stilted poesy, apt for "Julius Caesar," but pretentious for a few crusty gypsies with circus dreams. The tension in the love quadangle, though - three men starving for beautiful Dorothy Malone - spells magic. See more 04/16/2017 Terrific Douglas Sirk melodrama from the William Faulkner novel "Pylon." I have not read the Faulker book, but I'm guessing it was nowhere as soapy as the film, but as soapy melodrama's go, no one does them better than Douglas Sirk. Robert Stack plays a boozy disillusioned WWI flying ace who now spends his days as a barnstorming pilot at rural carnivals with his neglected parachutist wife, Dorothy Malone, who he only married as a result of a literal roll of the dice. Rock Hudson plays a reporter doing a story on this dysfunctional traveling family of flyers that also includes Jack Carson, Troy Donahue, and William Schallert. Sirk's perchance for over-the-top drama is probably not going to look great to modern viewers, but for fans of classic Hollywood and fans of Sirk in particular, this film is a must see! See more s r @ScottR 01/16/2017 Somber and tragic, but well made. See more 05/04/2016 Hudson is mesmerising as newspaper reporter Burke Devlin who is besotted by fly-by-night characters, especially sultry daredevil parachutist LaVerne Schumann (Malone). His character is worth all of the others put together. In the acting stakes too he shines brightly, adding nuance to his performance. Unfortunately the script is tarnished, especially if we are to believe Hudson's infatuation for LaVerne who proves herself to be mostly unloveable. If you like Depression era dramas, that will help you enjoy this more. And if you like the early world of flying, that will help too. But mostly watch it for Rock Hudson's intelligent performance. Based on a story by William Faulker. See more 06/20/2014 one of melodrama master douglas sirk's best efforts See more Read all reviews

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