The Tarnished Angels
1957 · 91 MIN · IMDB 7.1 · 4,273 VOTES · DIR. Douglas Sirk
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 997 lines
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00:01:56 Who's your old man, kid? Huh? Who's your old man?
00:04:50 - Did you rent us a room? - We can sleep in the hangar.
00:07:19 Hey, Burke. Look, you play ball with me, I'll match your pay cheque.
00:11:42 A portrait of a pilot sitting in a warplane...
00:14:54 - By the way... - Yes?
00:18:45 Just woke out of a nightmare.
00:21:57 Something tells me I won't be your city editor much longer.
00:25:26 A crazy bird, chasing after prizes as big as... birdseed.
00:30:41 Yeah. Like a laid-out corpse.
00:33:34 And I thought you hit bottom with that dice game.
00:37:20 What about Roger?
00:40:33 Act like a businessman. Deal in facts.
00:44:41 who said Grant could lick Lee every day of the week and twice on Sundays.
00:49:07 You're scared that Matt Ord will welsh on his end of the bargain.
00:52:24 My flirtations were with death.
00:57:10 - If Matt has loused us up... - You won't win any prizes
01:00:14 - Come on! Not much time. - Leave us alone for a minute, huh?
01:03:31 Shumann's closing the gap, and fast, too. He's passing Miller
01:09:20 Put the boots away!
01:13:18 Good night.
01:16:52 - Where are you going? - None of your business.
01:20:22 - Preserved in alcohol, no doubt. - No.
01:22:54 and he deserves our tears.
01:26:30 I'm putting you and Jack on a plane to Chicago.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed997
Dialogue density11.0 lines / min
First line00:01:56
Final line01:26:30
Production Record
DirectorDouglas Sirk
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes4,273