A roustabout joins a traveling carny and schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoholic husband.
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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)
Bonnie Bannon
Knife Thrower's Assistant (uncredited)
Director
Edmund Goulding
Screenplay
Jules Furthman
Tagline
"He was all things to all men… But only one thing to all women!"
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Production
20th Century Fox
Steve
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 spoi...
CinemaSerf
July 7, 2022
Tyrone Power is at his most alluring in this compelling story of "Stanton Carlisle". He starts out working as a general factotum with a travelling show where he meets "Zeena" (Joan Blondell). She is part of the mind-reading act with "Bruno" (Mike Mazurki) - a man who hits the bottle just once too often. She begins to teach him the tricks of their trade and soon they are the toast of society - flee...
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