The Tarnished Angels (1957)
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William Faulkner's novel Pylon was optioned by Universal producer Albert Zugsmith, who used it as the source for his 1957 production The Tarnished Angels. Robert Stack is a disillusioned World War One ace eking out a living as a barnstorming pilot/parachutist during the early 1930s. New Orleans newspaperman Rock Hudson runs across Stack at a two-bit carnival. He becomes fascinated with Stack's fall from grace, and latches onto him. As he is drawn into Stack's iconoclastic, individualistic lifestyle, Hudson finds he is also drawn to the pilot's long-suffering wife, Dorothy Malone. Jack Carson is on hand as Stack's chief mechanic, whose anger over the pilot's abusive treatment of Malone explodes into tragedy. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Rock Hudson - Burke Devlin
- Dorothy Malone - LaVerne Shumann
- Robert Middleton - Matt Ord
- Troy Donahue - Frank Burnham
- Robert J. Wilke - Hank
- Betty Utey - Dancing girl
- Steve Drexel - Young Man
- Stephen Ellis - Mechanic
- Robert Stack - Roger Shumann
- Jack Carson - Jiggs
- Alan Reed, Sr. - Col. Fineman
- Alexander Lockwood - Sam Hagood
- William Schallert - Ted Baker
- Phil Harvey - Telegraph editor
- Eugene Borden - Claude Mollet
- Chris Olson - Jack Shumann
- Director(s):
- Douglas Sirk
- Writer(s):
- George Zuckerman
- Producer(s):
- Albert Zugsmith
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