Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Colleen Gray
Nightmare Alley is the story of a con man who recruits a couple of amatuers as his partners.
DVD Release Date: June 7, 2005
Stats: 82 reviews
Good movie, with an especially good performance by Tyrone Power. He plays a magician/mentalist in a circus sideshow. One of his fellow performers dies due to a careless, although unintentional, act by Power, a death foretold in a tarot card reading by Joan Blondell. Power leaves ...( read more)
a highly underrated film noir flick starring tyrone power who is usually the typecasted swashbuckler....a story around the circus and the art of con. power plays a drifter who seeks a job in the circus and acquires the trickery of conning art supervised by the senior con woman pl...( read more)
An eerie mysterious NOIR starring Tyrone Power as Stanton Carlisle, a young carnival barker who learned how early on to con people. I love this movie! So many wonderful characters. xxx
If you like grim and bleak noir, this is about the grimmest and bleakest. Fantastic.
Nightmare Alley is like two parts Noir, one part Twilight Zone and one part Freaks. Tyrone Power is great and a real bastard. At an earlier point in the film i said to my girlfriend, "wouldnt it be great if this ended up happening to him"....and it did! I loved the way it turned ...( read more)
Creepy and gritty nice 2 see suave man Power going against type and Blondell holds her own
The mutant baby of Freaks and Double Indemnity. A pitch black noir for fans of the series Carnivale. This film revels in its dark and twisty tale and slimy characters.
Absolutely incredible film - and it really is Tyrone Power's greatest performance. Unfortunately, the film was too ahead of its time and Zanuck hated it and withdrew it from distribution and gave it no publicity. I'm introducing it on January 8, a new print of it, at the Dryden...( read more)
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