Tarnished Angel

1938 Directed by Leslie Goodwins

Sensational Expose Of "Miracle Racket"!

A showgirl with a dubious reputation flees the cops and transforms herself into a phony evangelist offering "cures" to the sick and disabled.

Sally Eilers Lee Bowman Ann Miller Alma Kruger Paul Guilfoyle Jonathan Hale Cecil Kellaway Byron Foulger Janet Dempsey Hamilton MacFadden Lew Davis John Dilson Helen Jerome Eddy Robert Gleckler William Gould Eddie Hart Earle Hodgins Russell Hopton Bud Jamison Violet Leynd Tommy Mack Barry Macollum Eva McKenzie Robert Middlemass Harold Miller Bruce Mitchell William J. O'Brien Beulah Parkington Max Wagner

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Review by PUNQ ★★

Sally Eilers goes into the fake evangelist racket! Anything to scam a buck. Alright crime drama, but it's never an revelation.

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Review by Phillip Bryant

The approximate 15 minutes this explores its premise and is not a mishmash of other, better movies is actually interesting, but then comes the thud of the pat ending.
Review by Gregory Wood ★★½

just OK B movie fare
Review by Walter Przybylowski

Proper but too routine.
Review by hellohildy ★★

An ok premise, but Sally Ellers doesn't have the charisma to make her success at all believable, nor the depth to sell her change of heart. Supporting players were more successful particularly the wonderful Alma Kruger as the wealthy widow.
Review by Lorenzo Lee ★★

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This is a crime drama about a showgirl (Sally Eilers) with a dubious past becoming a faith healer and starts “curing” the sick and the disabled.
Ann Miller plays her friend who goes on the run with her.
Review by mikesmovies ★½

The ex-fiancée of a young rich man becomes the companion of a jewel thief, forming a vaudeville act with face "cure", but after she discovers, that she can really cure people, she decides to quit. Lousy movie...
Review by RanchoTuVu ★★★★

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Sister Connie (Sally Eilers) is a fake faith healer who gets religion so to speak when she gets involved in a plot to rip off a wealthy matron of her diamond and emerald necklace. But Connie can't quite carry it through because she goes soft-hearted for the poor Depression era child polio victims at the sanitarium that the matron has established and wants her to eventually run. The story is kind of run-of-the-mill but there are a few great scenes involving faith-healing that are loaded with a kind of 30's era drama that appeals even up to today on several levels.
Review by PUNQ ★★

Sally Eilers goes into the fake evangelist racket! Anything to scam a buck. Alright crime drama, but it's never an revelation.