The Tarnished Angels

(1957)

★ 6.8 IMDb · 100 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1957

Runtime: 91 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Douglas Sirk

Cast: Rock Hudson, Роберт Стэк, Dorothy Malone, Джек Карсон, Robert Middleton, Уильям Шэллерт, Алан Рид, Alexander Lockwood, Robert J. Wilke, Christopher Olsen

Plot

In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot at aerial stunt shows while his wife, LaVerne, works as a parachutist. When newspaper reporter Burke Devlin arrives to do a story on the Shumanns’ act, he quickly falls in love with the beautiful--and neglected--LaVerne.

In the 1930's, a First World War flying ace named Roger Schumann is reduced to making appearances on the crash-and-burn circuit of stunt aerobatics. His family are forced to live like dogs while Shumann pursues his only true love, the airplane. When Burke Devlin, a reporter, shows up on the scene to do a "whatever happened to" story on Shumann, he is repulsed by the war hero's diminished circumstances and, conversely, drawn to his stunning wife, LaVerne.