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How I felt about it. Today's audience, if they remember Rock Hudson at all, remember him as the first homosexual celebrity to die of AIDS. This adds spectacular irony to his perpetual casting as the tall, dark, and handsome lover with a bedroom voice. The cynics will laugh at Hudson, others will simply roll their eyes at the dramatics in this sports opera, based on a William Faulkner story.
Actually, it's hard to imagine anyone who would regard this movie as important or memorable, aside from any significance to the careers of its actors. The problems are all too obvious to the critic, and should be noticed even by the casual classic movie fan, the film's most likely (and most likely forgiving) viewer.
How others will see it. It's time to hack The Tarnished Angels to pieces. This will inevitably introduce spoilers, for those who are concerned about such things.
Most silly scene. Hudson, fired earlier by his paper for insubordination, shows up at his former office, a slurring, reckless drunk. But he instantly transforms into a master story teller, and is so noble in delivery that his editor is soon begging him to return to work. Tuesday? No, I'll be drunk. Wednesday? Oh, okay.
Second most silly scene. Hudson shows up at the hotel room of ugly but wealthy Robert Middleton, who has first prize Malone curled up on his couch. Hudson wants to leave with her, but gets nowhere until he threatens to bash in Middleton's head with the phone. That turns on Malone's love light, while Middleton cowers quietly in the corner.
Third most silly scene. Stack and Malone settle their latest marriage-threatening argument with a dramatic kiss, with Stack in the cockpit of a death trap, promising this will be the very last time he risks his life barnstorming. After this performance, there's nowhere for him to go but down in flames, since such a happy ending for Stack would leave the first billed, Hudson, looking like a stood up high school student.
More silly moments. These carnival air shows seem to end with fiery plane crashes. The announcer exhorts, "Stay off the field! Stay off the field!" The audience interprets this as "Rush the field!" and they run en masse toward the doomed plane or burning wreck. Ever hear of gates, or using policemen to control the crowd?