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| Universal Pictures | Release Date: December 31, 1957 |
Starring:
Alan Reed, Alexander Lockwood, Christopher Olsen, Dorothy Malone, Jack Carson, Robert J. Wilke, Robert Middleton, Robert Stack, Rock Hudson, Troy Donahue
Summary:
Story of the fraught friendship between an eccentric journalist and a team of daredevil flying acrobats.
Not only is the wide screen black-and-white "Angels" Sirk's best movie -- dramatically richer than his more popular '50s romantic melodramas, but just as visually beautiful -- it is the only film from a Faulkner story that the novelist himself liked and praised. [05 Jun 1997, p.8]
Arguably Sirk's bleakest film - perhaps because it was shot in greyish monochrome rather than luridly stylised colour - and one of his finest, this adaptation of Faulkner's Pylon reassembles the three principles from Written on the Wind for a probing but sympathetic study in failure and despair.
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Like Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole, which creates a damning critique of media circuses that would allow a man to die if it means increasing readership, The Tarnished Angels understands the innate human desire to look at beauty or terror as the potentially catastrophic fuel of public interest.
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