The Tarnished Angels

Set in the 1930s Depression era during Mardi Gras in New Orleans, the Tarnished Angels covers three days in the lives of a trio of flying-circus performers, headlined by former WWI fighter-pilot hero Roger Shumann (Robert Stack) and his beautiful blonde wife, Laverne (Dorothy Malone). Romantic complications arise when newspaper reporter Burke Devlin (Rock Hudson) falls in love with Laverne while covering their daredevil aerial show. Based on the William Faulkner novel Pylon, this screen adaptation was a personal favorite of director Douglas Sirks and is considered by many to be a masterpiece equal to his Academy Award winning Written on the Wind (1956), which also starred Hudson, Malone and Stack in the key roles.

Director: Douglas Sirk
Actor: Rock Hudson
Actor: Robert Stack
Actor: Dorothy Malone
Actor: Jack Carson
Actor: Robert Middleton
Actor: Alan Reed
Actor: Alexander Lockwood
Actor: Chris Olsen
Actor: Robert J. Wilke
Actor: Troy Donahue
Actor: William Schallert
Actor: Betty Utey
Actor: Phil Harvey
Actor: Steve Drexel
Actor: Eugene Borden