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Réalisateur:
Douglas Sirk
Scénaristes:
William Faulkner (novel)
George Zuckerman (writer)
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Date de sortie:
11 janvier 1958 (USA) suite
Genre:
Drame suite
Intrigue:
Story of a friendship between an eccentric journalist and a daredevil barnstorming pilot. full summary | add synopsis
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Rock Hudson ... Burke Devlin

Robert Stack ... Roger Shumann
Dorothy Malone ... LaVerne Shumann

Jack Carson ... Jiggs
Robert Middleton ... Matt Ord
Alan Reed ... Colonel T. J. Fineman
Alexander Lockwood ... Sam Hagood
Christopher Olsen ... Jack Shumann (as Chris Olsen)

Robert J. Wilke ... Hank

Troy Donahue ... Frank Burnham
William Schallert ... Ted Baker
Betty Utey ... Dancing girl
Phil Harvey ... Telegraph editor
Steve Drexel ... Young Man
Eugene Borden ... Claude Mollet
Stephen Ellis ... Mechanic
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Bill Baldwin ... Pylon Air Race Announcer (uncredited) (voice)
Jack Chefe ... Chef at Roger's Memorial Dinner (uncredited)
Bess Flowers ... Newspaper office clerk (uncredited)
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Réalisé par
Douglas Sirk 
 
Scénaristes
William Faulkner (novel "Pylon")

George Zuckerman (writer)

Produit par
Albert Zugsmith .... producer
 
Musique originale
Frank Skinner 
 
Image
Irving Glassberg 
 
Montage
Russell F. Schoengarth 
 
Direction artistique
Alexander Golitzen 
Alfred Sweeney 
 
Décorateur de plateau
Oliver Emert 
Russell A. Gausman 
 
Création des costumes
Bill Thomas 
 
Maquillage
Bud Westmore .... makeup artist
 
Assistant réalisateur
Wilbur Mosier .... second assistant director
David Silver .... assistant director
 
Technicien du son
Leslie I. Carey .... sound
Corson Jowett .... sound
 
Effets spéciaux
Clifford Stine .... special effects
 
Caméra et Département Electrique
Clifford Stine .... special photography
 
Département Musique
Joseph Gershenson .... music supervisor
Henry Mancini .... composer: stock music (uncredited)
Herman Stein .... composer: stock music (uncredited)
 
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Détails supplémentaires

Autre(s) titre(s):
Pylon (USA) (working title)
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Durée:
91 min
Pays:
USA
Langue:
Anglais
Couleur:
Noir et Blanc
Rapport de forme:
2,35 : 1 suite
Son:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Lieux de tournage:
San Diego, California, USA

Curiosités

Anecdotes:
Douglas Sirk reportedly stated in an interview this was the best film he directed. suite
Goofs:
Anachronismes: Despite the fact that the story is taking place in the early 1930s, all of Dorothy Malone's clothing, hairstyles and make-up are strictly 1957, the year the picture was filmed. suite
Connexions:
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The Blight Stuff, 12 avril 2003
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Auteur : Piafredux de Etats-Unis

Alone, during an all night boot camp fire midwatch in a huge, sepulchral building, at one o'clock in the morning I dared (had I gotten caught I'd have done a punishment tour at 'Happy Hour') to switch on the TV in the Master At Arms' office. On came the titles of 'The Tarnished Angels'.

I've been enthralled by it ever since.

It would be a revelation to get to see this film in CinemaScope, but it's one of those few films whose themes seem to be intensified by pan-and-scan: the characters' claustrophobic loneliness in a throng; the pressing anxiety of a child about his parentage; the narrowing, time-running-out bravado of the former war ace; the ache of the mechanic who can fix only aeroplanes but not his timorousness; the naked greed and lust of the depression mogul lucky to have been spared the worst of his era's depredations; the despair of the wife who followed a man and ended up jilted by his corpse, with no place to turn; and the outside-looking-in fascination, desolation, and crashed dreams of a reporter lying torpidly in a pond of bootleg hootch.

Atypical of director Sirk's opus 'The Tarnished Angels' shows his grasp of his medium in the haunting chiaroscuro of black & white, and in the edgy editing of the flying scenes that furnish the only relief from - or should that be masterful exacerbation of - the confining, torturous ties and jealousies, yearnings and flailings that bind the characters in existential angst.

Not much of a plot here, but the acting is to marvel at. Robert Stack's muscular, sexy, once-genuine hero turns to tin before your eyes. Dorothy Malone's aching milk-and-honey farm girl fecundity, horse-traded libido, and lovelessness struggle against the vast flush of the Depression's The Blight Stuff toilet in which her husband's sole skill is no life preserver for his family's plunge into life-and-death, give-and-give, take-and-take despair. Rock Hudson's goodhearted reporter, yearning to find some goodness in humankind, having his search thwarted by the grinder of want and need, loyalty and betrayal, helplessness and manipulation. The mogul frustrated because his only skill is heavy-handed buying and selling (played wonderfully by Robert Middleton - in a diabolical role that makes the bargain in 'Indecent Proposal' look frivolously angelic by comparison), whose physiognomy oozes reptilian menace that cloaks his unrelievable aching to possess one immutable, beautiful, worthy thing.

'The Tarnished Angels' left me feeling as wrung out as the overstressed airframes in its hell-for-leather air race scenes, and quite a bit more grown-up than I was before I'd seen its characters rooting round in the Depression gutters of abasement and debasement.

After my midwatch, near dawn, when I tumbled into my open-bay barracks rack, I couldn't sleep. I wished for an angel to hand me a tin of BrassO for my coming-of-age, tarnishing soul.

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