These Dead Souls

Overview

An audiovisual essay on Douglas Sirk's film The Tarnished Angels (1957). Analyzes a central scene 40 minutes into the narrative, and also refers both backward and forward in order to show the film’s richly elaborated logic of part and whole, repetition and stasis, drama and entropy.

Cast

Rock Hudson

(archive footage)

Dorothy Malone

(archive footage)

Robert Stack

(archive footage)