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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 7898366214024
Format: Import, NTSC, Black & White, Letterboxed
Running Time: 91 minutes
Sales Rank: 36967
Theatrical Release Date: 1958
Features:- Cover in Portuguese.
- Audio in English.
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Rock Hudson has never been better than as the hard-headed newsman with a romantic soft spot for a team of gypsy fliers--especially the sexy parachute-jumping Dorothy Malone--in Douglas Sirk's adaptation of William Faulkner's Pylon. It's the Depression, and the volatile little family--disillusioned World War I ace Robert Stack; his doting wife Malone; his sad, lovesick mechanic Jack Carson; and Stack's hero-worshipping son--has landed in New Orleans for a Mardi Gras air show. Stack's mania for flying ('I need to fly, just like an alcoholic needs his drink!') keeps him at arm's length from his loving family, and he even sacrifices his wife's virtue for a shot at piloting his archrival's spare plane, but his brittle emotional armor cracks in a stunning moment of redemption. Douglas Sirk trades his vivid Technicolor palette for shadowy black-and-white CinemaScope (the gorgeous widescreen compositions are tragically lost on pan-and-scan video) to create a dark, desperate vision of the Depression, where deadened souls wait for the next spectacular crash as fliers recklessly race around pylons. Sirk heightens the alienation with the most stylized shooting of his career: cameras peer through transom windows, shadows slash through scenes, and grotesque Mardi Gras costumes wander through almost every scene. This production is considered by many, including Faulkner himself, to be the best adaptation of the author's work, and it remains Sirk's most bleakly beautiful film. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Great Performance
This has to be one of Robert Stacks all time great performances. One that should in my opinion have earned him another Oscar monination for best actor. What a shame Hollywood chose to ignore for the most part this fantastically talented man. Rock Hudson and Jack Carson also gave brilliant performances as did Dorothy Malone. A film worthy of becoming a great Douglas Sirk classic
Rating: - Finally!
Finally! Tarnished Angels on DVD! It's from Brazil, with both a Portugese box cover and DVD menu, but the film is presented in a gorgeous black and white widescreen Cinemascope transfer. Excellent quality, not a bootleg. My only question is why hasn't Universal released this in North America??? ...and what about Magnificient Obsession?
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