Directed by:
Edmund GouldingScreenplay:
Jules FurthmanCinematography:
Lee GarmesComposer:
Cyril J. MockridgeCast:
Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker, Mike Mazurki, Ian Keith, Gene Roth, Eddy Waller, George Chandler, James Flavin, Roy Roberts (more)Plots(1)
One of the darkest and most startling films ever to come out of golden-era Hollywood, based on a novel that many thought unfilmable at a time when the Production Code held sway, Nightmare Alley is set in the gritty yet surreal world of a travelling carnival, whose eccentric inhabitants serve up bizarre illusions to a grateful and gullible public. Tyrone Power’s ruthless schemer, Stanton Carlisle, was his favorite of all his roles, and no wonder: it stretched him like nothing before or since as Carlisle rises from raffish carnival barker to national mind-reading sensation in partnership with his beautiful wife Molly (Coleen Gray), before an equally precipitous fall at the hands of a duplicitous psychologist (Helen Walker) and his own all too human frailties. Director Edmund Goulding conjures a spellbinding atmosphere out of some of the weirdest material ever to be tackled by a major studio. (Signal One Entertainment)
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