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Nightmare Alley is a 1947 American film noir directed by Edmund Goulding from a screenplay by Jules Furthman. [2] Based on William Lindsay Gresham 's 1946 novel of the same name, it stars Tyrone Power, with Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, and Helen Walker in supporting roles. Power, wishing to expand beyond the romantic and swashbuckler roles that ...
Nightmare Alley: Directed by Edmund Goulding. With Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker. The rise and fall of Stanton Carlisle, a mentalist whose lies and deceit prove to be his downfall.
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- Drama, Film-Noir
- Edmund Goulding
- 1947-10-28
Nightmare Alley. Playing against type with Nightmare Alley, Tyrone Power and Edmund Goulding deliver some of their best work in a carnival-set noir unafraid to showcase true despair. Roustabout ...
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- Crime, Drama
- Edmund Goulding
Darkness lurks behind the bright lights of a traveling carnival in one of the most haunting and perverse film noirs of the 1940s. Adapted from the scandalous best seller by William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley gave Tyrone Power a chance to subvert his matinee-idol image with a ruthless performance as Stanton Carlisle, a small-time carny whose unctuous charm propels him to fame as a ...
- Stanton Carlisle
Dec 19, 2021 · Coleen Gray and Tyrone Power as carnival workers in the 1947 “Nightmare Alley.” 20th Century Fox. By Ben Kenigsberg. Dec. 19, 2021. At the premiere of his new drama “ Nightmare Alley ...
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Synopsis. Stanton Carlisle (Tyrone Power) raised in an orphanage and reform school is a drifter who works as a barker in a carnival. He is fascinated by the Geek side show in which a crazy man performs by biting heads off of live chickens and is paid off with a bottle of rotgut and a cot to sleep. Charming and good-looking, Stanton spends much ...
May 25, 2021 · For Stanton Carlisle, played by a magnificent Tyrone Power, all of this is true. Nightmare Alley is much like Stanton, coarse and yet elegant; it is an A picture with the gritty, pounding heart of a B. A film noir, but not entirely classifiable as such, it seemed destined to become a cult oddity, even if Twentieth Century-Fox likely wanted to ...
