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The Tarnished Angels (1958)

The Tarnished Angels poster
Directed by
Douglas Sirk
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 31m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 99 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A reporter becomes obsessed with a family of aerial performers at a 1930s air show. He watches them deal with love, loss, and desperation as they risk their lives for money.

melancholicintrospectivebleakslow-burnvisually starkemotionally rawrestlessnoir-ish

What happens

The Tarnished Angels is a 1957 black-and-white American CinemaScope drama film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Jack Carson, and Robert Middleton. The screenplay by George Zuckerman is based on the 1935 novel Pylon by William Faulkner. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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