Nightmare Alley
Summary:
Nightmare Alley is the sordid tale of a conniving young man who, in the words of one of the film's supporting characters, ends up low because he aimed so high. Drifter Tyrone Power sweet-talks his way into a job as barker for a rundown carnival. He is fascinated by an illegal side-show attraction called "The Geek," a near-lunatic who bites the heads off live chickens and then is "p... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Tyrone Power - (Stanton Carlisle)
Joan Blondell - (Zeena)
Coleen Gray - (Molly)
Helen Walker - (Dr. Lilith Ritter)
Ian Keith - (Pete)
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Review:
Aiming to prove his acting ability and stretch his image, leading man Tyrone Power pushed to star as a tragically ambitious spiritualist/con man in Edmund Goulding's film noir melodrama Nightmare Alley (1947). In Jules Furthman's adaptation of a William Lindsay Gresham novel, Power's conniving Stan rises from carny barker t... Continue >>
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