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  Nightmare Alley (1947)

From Amazon: The long-awaited emergence of Nightmare Alley into the light of DVD should achieve two things: make a legendary film noir available to a new generation, and restore the horrific charge to the lately watered-down term geek, a concept that once had the power to give people very bad dreams indeed. To his lasting credit, Tyrone Power--20th Century Fox's extraordinarily handsome but not terribly interesting star of the '30s and '40s--begged for the chance to play Stan Carlisle, the predatory charmer who snakes his way through this bracingly unwholesome story. A spieler for--and lover of--carnival mind reader Zeena (Joan...

Starring: Tyrone Power
Coleen Gray
Joan Blondell
Helen Walker
Taylor Holmes
Directed By: Edmund Goulding

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Nightmare Alley Movie Review by B Movie Ben (3/18/2008)

This was the best role that Tyrone Power (The Mark of Zorro) ever got. He made the most of it, and gave a superior performance.

He plays an opportunist, who is trying to get an angle. he discovers a carny act that used to be great and finds a way to get their secret. he uses that to build himself into a "mentalist," but...

(complete Nightmare Alley review by B Movie Ben)



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