Has anyone ever seen "The Tarnished Angels"? Its a screen adaptation of a book by William Faulkner called "Pylon". The book is great, if your able to read Faulkner. (Sentences go on and on and on and on) But if you can separate the wheat from the chaffe its a pretty good story. And don't get on me about that comment. I love Faulkner just as much as anyone, just find him a little hard to get through sometimes. Anyway its the only aviation based novel he ever wrote, despite the fact that he was an accomplished aviator who owned a Waco for several years until his brother balled it up. Learned to fly about 75 yards from where I'm sitting in my office.
Oh, the movie had Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone and Jack Carson as the central characters. Its about a reporter covering an airshow in the city of New Valois (New Orleans) who hooks up with a band of gypsy airshow/racing pilots, their mechanic and their woman. The book is about the reporter trying to figure out what makes them tick, and can a person live a life without a central place to call home. So if anyone has seen the movie let me know how it is and wether I should spend the time and effort trying to track it down.