The Tarnished Angels (1957)
Country: US
Technical: bw/2.35:1 91m
Director: Douglas Sirk
Cast: Rock Hudson, Dorothy Malone, Robert Stack, Jack Carson
Synopsis:
A soused up reporter during the Depression follows a story on a flying circus aviator against his editor's wishes, and falls for the wife.
Review:
Classic Sirk melodrama, a film about nothing at all that achieves sublimity through handling and performance. Hudson's lightweight style is lent stature and pathos via low-angle shots and composition, and the writing, based on a Faulkner novel, has that romantic fatalism that is part film noir, part the Depression through European eyes. The upbeat, chrome-plated tailfin ending, however, is pure Sirk.
Country: US
Technical: bw/2.35:1 91m
Director: Douglas Sirk
Cast: Rock Hudson, Dorothy Malone, Robert Stack, Jack Carson
Synopsis:
A soused up reporter during the Depression follows a story on a flying circus aviator against his editor's wishes, and falls for the wife.
Review:
Classic Sirk melodrama, a film about nothing at all that achieves sublimity through handling and performance. Hudson's lightweight style is lent stature and pathos via low-angle shots and composition, and the writing, based on a Faulkner novel, has that romantic fatalism that is part film noir, part the Depression through European eyes. The upbeat, chrome-plated tailfin ending, however, is pure Sirk.
Country: US
Technical: bw/2.35:1 91m
Director: Douglas Sirk
Cast: Rock Hudson, Dorothy Malone, Robert Stack, Jack Carson
Synopsis:
A soused up reporter during the Depression follows a story on a flying circus aviator against his editor's wishes, and falls for the wife.
Review:
Classic Sirk melodrama, a film about nothing at all that achieves sublimity through handling and performance. Hudson's lightweight style is lent stature and pathos via low-angle shots and composition, and the writing, based on a Faulkner novel, has that romantic fatalism that is part film noir, part the Depression through European eyes. The upbeat, chrome-plated tailfin ending, however, is pure Sirk.