Movie
The Tarnished Angels
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1957-11-21
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Universal Pictures, Universal International Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Rock Hudson as Burke Devlin
- Robert Stack as Roger Shumann
- Dorothy Malone as LaVerne Shumann
- Jack Carson as Jiggs
- Robert Middleton as Matt Ord
- William Schallert as Ted Baker
- Alan Reed as Colonel Fineman
- Alexander Lockwood as Sam Hagood
- Robert J. Wilke as Hank
- Christopher Olsen as Jack Shumann
- Troy Donahue as Frank Burnham
- Betty Utey as Dancing Girl
Crew
- Douglas Sirk - Director
- George Zuckerman - Writer
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