The Tarnished Angels

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Tarnished Angels, 1958.

TCM's Saturday afternoon host Tiffany Vazquez introduces The Tarnished Angels, 1958.

Director Douglas Sirk’s opening, introducing stars Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Jack Carson and Dorothy Malone, whose form-fitting wardrobe will be a running theme, in his film from William Faulkner’s lesser-known novel about Depression-era barnstorming, The Tarnished Angels, 1957.

Smitten reporter Burke (Rock Hudson) with Laverne (Dorothy Malone), sexpot wife of barnstorming pilot Roger (Robert Stack), who has a nasty idea on how she can help him get a new plane, Jack Carson the disgusted sidekick, in Douglas Sirk’s The Tarnished Angels, 1957, from a William Faulkner novel.

Still on the evening of their first meeting, reporter Burke (Rock Hudson) hears from houseguest Laverne (Dorothy Malone) about her stunt pilot husband Roger (Robert Stack) and their mechanic Jiggs (Jack Carson), Douglas Sirk directing from William Faulkner’s novel, in The Tarnished Angels, 1957.

Rock Hudson as New Orleans newsman Burke returns to his apartment where he’s putting up new friends, only Laverne (Dorothy Malone) still up, as her barnstormer husband Roger (Robert Stack), mechanic Jiggs (Jack Carson) and her son snooze, in Douglas Sirk’s The Tarnished Angels, 1957.

A newsman falls for the wife of a barnstorming pilot whose work he's covering in Douglas Sirk's The Tarnished Angels (1958) starring Rock Hudson.