The Tarnished Angels (1957)

A disillusioned World War One flying ace is eking out a living as a barnstorming pilot/parachutist during the early 1930s. A New Orleans newspaperman runs across the pilot at a two-bit carnival and becomes fascinated with his fall from grace, and is drawn into his iconoclastic, individualistic lifestyle, He also finds himself drawn to the pilot’s long-suffering wife.