Nightmare Alley (1947)

09/10/1947 (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 Mar 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...