Nightmare Alley

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Nightmare Alley (1947)

NR 10/09/1947 (US) Drama, Thriller, Crime 1h 51m

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He was all things to all men … but only one thing to all women!

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Roustabout Stanton Carlisle joins a traveling carny and unsuccessfully schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoholic husband, Pete.

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Tyrone Power

Stanton 'Stan' Carlisle
Helen Walker

Lilith Ritter
Coleen Gray

Molly Carlisle
Joan Blondell

Zeena Krumbein
Taylor Holmes

Ezra Grindle
Mike Mazurki

Bruno
Ian Keith

Pete Krumbein
Roy Roberts

McGraw - Final Carnival Owner (uncredited)
Florence Auer

Jane (uncredited)
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A review by Steve

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Written by Steve on March 1, 2018

from NoiroftheWeek.com

This week I've been thinking about Nightmare Alley. It's a 1947 noir starring Tyrone Power

Time has been good to this one. The indispensable 70s movie book King of the B's: Working Within the Hollywood System has a fascinating piece on the film in an article written in 1974 by Clive T. Miller.

He writes: "Nightmare Alley (1947) is the quintessential B movie spoiled by an A production. If the studio, Twentieth Century-Fox, had left well enough alone, Nightmare Alley would have be hard and nasty. Or if they had turned it into a full-fledged A project, it would... read the rest.

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