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Nightmare Alley is a 1947 American film noir directed by Edmund Goulding from a screenplay by Jules Furthman. 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.
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
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 charlatan spiritualist, but whose unchecked ambition leads him down a path of moral ...
- Stanton Carlisle
Dec 19, 2021 · By Ben Kenigsberg. Dec. 19, 2021. At the premiere of his new drama “ Nightmare Alley ” this month, the director Guillermo del Toro told the audience he had read the 1946 novel by William...
Roustabout Stanton Carlisle (Tyrone Power) joins a traveling carny and unsuccessfully schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena (Joan Blondell) and her alcoholic husband ...
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- Crime, Drama
- Edmund Goulding
Summaries. The rise and fall of Stanton Carlisle, a mentalist whose lies and deceit prove to be his downfall. Mesmerised by the dark allure of the carnival world, rapaciously ambitious opportunist Stanton clings to supposed prophetess Mademoiselle Zeena to learn the tricks of the trade.
Nightmare Alley (1947) Director Edmund Goulding's dark, bleak, fatalistic and very disturbing noir was basically the story of the rise and precipitous fall of a con-man - an overly-ambitious, cynical and fake mentalist/spirtualist or clairvoyant.
