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Nightmare Alley

Starring: Tyrone Power & Joan Blondell Director: Edmund Goulding

DVD Features:

Audio:

• Mono - English
• Stereo - English
• Subtitles - English, Spanish

Additional Release Material:

• Audio Commentary - Alain Silver and James Ursini
• Theatrical Trailer
• Bonus Trailers - 1. Dark Corner
                         2. Laura
                         3. Panic in the Streets
                         4. House of Bamboo
                         5. A Street With No Name

Description by OLDIES.com:

In this engaging melodrama, Stanton Carlisle (Tyrone Power) is a lowlife working in a carnival. Knowing a good con when he sees one, he learns the tricks of a mind-reading act from Zeena (Joan Blondell), then tosses her aside. in time, he becomes "The Great Stanton," star attraction of swanky nightclubs and the darling of society. But with all his notoriety built on lies, it's only a matter of time before exposure brings Stanton's world crashing down around him.

Product Description:

This relatively little-known film is widely hailed by fans of the macabre. Truly ahead of its time, NIGHTMARE ALLEY is set in the gritty, surrealistic world of traveling carnivals, where eccentric people of all possible varieties interact on a daily basis. In a departure from his usual roles as the Hollywood leading man, handsome Tyrone Power plays a morally questionable circus apprentice determined to climb the carnival ladder no matter what the price. Powers shows immense range in what was arguably his finest role ever as the sometimes unrecognizably scruffy circus man with a liking for the bottle. Director Edmund Goulding (DARK VICTORY) gives the carnival setting a dark, somber feel that contradicts the film's more upbeat ending. In spite of this ending tacked on by the studio system, NIGHTMARE ALLEY remains with the viewer even after it's over, haunting them with its bleak images and melancholy mood.

Plot Keywords:

Drama | Drama (General) | Film Noir

Cast and Crew: