Old Movie Buffs -- Help!

I see to recall a film in the '50s starring Robert Stack (?) and Dorothy Malone (famous for her arch-slut roles), in which Stack was a former WWI ace who'd fallen on hard times and was working the air show circuit. His faithful mechanic was named Jiggs . . .

Can anyone help me w/ the title and release year of this epic?

TIA. Yours aye,
Bill Suggs

[mike_baram]

"The Tarnished Angels" aka "Pylon"- 1957
Directed by Douglas Sirk
Writing credits:
William Faulkner (novel)
George Zuckerman

Plot Outline: Story of a friendship between an eccentric journalist and a daredevil barnstorming pilot.

Rock Hudson .... Burke Devlin
Robert Stack .... Roger Shumann
Dorothy Malone .... LaVerne Shumann
Jack Carson .... Jiggs
Robert Middleton .... Matt Ord

Here you go Bill;
Tarnished Angels (1958) Stack, Malone and Rock Hudson playing the reporter. Jack Carson was the sidekick. Had good ratings.

Kind of reminds me of Gypsy Moths (Burt Lancaster)

Do you remember Stack's best role? He was in "Eagle Squadron".

[mike_baram]

A very young Robert Stack played a Polish pilot in Jack Benny's "To Be Or Not To Be".

[Richard_Schrader]

All;
Robert Stack has always been my favorite actor. He also did a movie call "Sabre Jets" where he battled Mig 15's in Mig alley.
Nobody could play the part of Eliot Ness like Stack!
Richard

Only thing I regret about Stack is that he shied away from polotics. He would have been a much better president of the NRA than Moses turned out to be. ALso, he married a girl from Tacoma named Rosemarie Bowe.
Du;ring WW-II he was in the Navy, teaching machine gunnery. And, as a teenager, he was a national champion skeet shooter. During the '60's he wrote a column in Gun World magazine on shotguns.
And, all the while, Heston was mumbling and overacting and cannot say anything without a script.

[PeterL]

The Tarnished Angels aired on cable here just last week. Not at all bad as a matter of fact.

cheers

Peter L

[Richard_Schrader]

Tailspin;
He wrote a book about his life a few years ago. He has led quite a life!
Richard

[Barrett]

Years ago I met a WW II aerial gunner who'd been in one of Stack's classes. The vet said that it would've been SO easy to detest Bob Stack, who was extremely young/handsome/attractive/accurate, and so on. He could have just about any woman he wanted--one jealous sailor said "If that kid doesn't get laid tonight it's only because he don't want to."
Of far less importance, the same guy said "Sheesh--he never misses!" There are lots of good doers, but few can teach how to do it.
The "trouble" was that Stack was so personable and such a dedicated instructor that everybody liked him.
Don't you just hate people like that?

[Richard_Schrader]

Barrett;
I've always had good taste in my heroes.
Richard