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Rating: 7.5 stars

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noir black and white carny mentalist scam

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Nightmare Alley (1947)

Directed by Edmund Goulding

Drama | Film Noir

Most recently watched by sleestakk

Overview

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.

Rated NR | Length 111 minutes

Actors

Tyrone Power | Helen Walker | Coleen Gray | Joan Blondell | Taylor Holmes | Mike Mazurki | Ian Keith | Roy Roberts | Florence Auer | Bonnie Bannon | George Beranger | Oliver Blake | June Bolyn | Chet Brandenburg | James Burke | George Chandler | Harry Cheshire | Edward Clark | Clancy Cooper | George Davis | Julia Dean | Sayre Dearing | James Flavin | Nina Gilbert | Henry Hall | Robert Karnes | Kenner G. Kemp | Max Linder | George Lloyd | Laurette Luez | Emmett Lynn | Wilbur Mack | George Magrill | Jerry Miley | Frank O'Connor | Jack Perry | Cyril Ring | Gene Roth | Frank J. Scannell | Cy Schindell | Norman Stevens | Bert Stevens | Eddy Waller | Marjorie Wood | Rudy Germane

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

“How could a man ever get so low?” “He reached too high.”

Nightmare Alley charts the rise and fall of a carny who scams his way in and out of people’s lives on his way to the top of the mentalist game before plunging right back down into the gutter.

Anchored by a really strong performance by Tyrone Power in the lead as well as strong supporting roles from a trio of actresses as his various love interests.

Portions of the film are set in Chicago, though it’s hard to know if much filming was done on location except for a few exterior scenes.

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