The Tarnished Angels (1957)
Directed by Douglas Sirk · Cinematography by Irving Glassberg
Approved91 min62 frames
Drama
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What is The Tarnished Angels about?
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.
The Tarnished Angels is a 1957 black-and-white American CinemaScope drama film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Jack Carson, and Robert Middleton. The screenplay by George Zuckerman is based on the 1935 novel Pylon by William Faulkner.
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What does the cinematography of The Tarnished Angels look like?
Across 62 sampled frames, medium shots dominate the coverage of The Tarnished Angels (69% of the sample). Cinematographer Irving Glassberg keeps 44% of it in soft, low-key light. 53% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 58% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1950s.
What is the color palette of The Tarnished Angels?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Tarnished Angels (1957) are #020202, #8c8c8c, #303030, #fdfdfd, #cecece, #b0b0b0 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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