{"product_id":"the-tarnished-angels","title":"The Tarnished Angels","description":"\u003ch2\u003eDescription\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"inline canwrap\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTARS:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001369\/?ref_=tt_ov_st_1\"\u003eRock Hudson\u003c\/a\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0821041\/?ref_=tt_ov_st_2\"\u003eRobert Stack\u003c\/a\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0540416\/?ref_=tt_ov_st_3\"\u003eDorothy Malone\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e91 min | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Tragedy, Tragic Romance | 1957 | Color\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(43, 0, 255);\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(43, 0, 255);\"\u003eMovies with low demand and\/or out of print are manufactured-to-order using high quality recordable DVDs. 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Save on postage and waiting time. Transfer can take up to 12 hours depending on the time zone you are in.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text show-more__control\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTarnished Angels is a great film\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"display-name-date\"\u003eThe Tarnished Angels  I was fortunate enough to attend a screening of “The Tarnished Angels,” on a wide screen with a fresh print, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City back in 1980, with no less than Douglas Sirk himself invited by MOMA as a special guest. The film blew everybody away emotionally; Hudson, Stack, and Malone all give performances that are equally tough and vulnerable, but the grandeur of Sirk’s mise-en-scene, which really has to be seen in a theater on a wide screen to be fully appreciated, is a textbook example of the art of telling a story in film terms with both force and grace. Don’t mind the other reviewer; Faulkner himself, according to Sirk, said it was the best adaptation of his work he had seen in films.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI’ll Take This Sirk-Stack-Malone-Hudson Story\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"display-name-date\"\u003eEven though I haven’t seen this movie in quite a while, it’s ironic I would write this review shortly after viewing “Written On The Wind” for the first time recently. “Ironic” because of the main actors star in both films: Robert Stack, Rock Hudson and Dorothy Malone, and both films were directed by Douglas Sirk.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text show-more__control\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePersonally, I thought this film was far more interesting than the more well-known WOTW. This was a better story. Dorothy Malone, for one, looked a heckuva lot better in this movie. She had some classic beauty and shows it here more than the trampy role in the other film. I also preferred this film because it had some fascinating and dramatic flying scenes, things I have never seen before on film. Apparently, they had these 1930s air races in which planes few around pylons, almost like a horse race on land. This is the only film I’ve seen that pictured. Another thing I enjoyed was Hudson’s dramatic story at the end of the movie which, at first, seemed ridiculously melodramatic but was said so well that I found in very compelling, and it tied the whole story together. I also appreciated Malone doing the right thing at the end, telling off Hudson for coming on to her, since she was a married woman. This is one of the few films – including those in the 1950s – in which adultery is NOT treated mater-of-factly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"FilmClassicsonDVD","offers":[{"title":"DOWNLOAD","offer_id":51498647257375,"sku":"taang-2","price":10.94,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"DVD","offer_id":51498647290143,"sku":"taang-1","price":12.94,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0944\/0788\/5087\/files\/The-Tarnished-Angels-rareandcollectibledvds-214.jpg?v=1767266669","url":"https:\/\/filmclassicsondvd.com\/products\/the-tarnished-angels","provider":"FilmClassicsonDVD","version":"1.0","type":"link"}