Nightmare Alley (1947)
1947 · Feature film · 111 min · dir. Edmund Goulding
He was all things to all men… But only one thing to all women!
- Thriller
Synopsis
An ambitious carnival mentalist rises to a fashionable nightclub act and a lucrative spiritualist racket with a corrupt psychologist, and falls all the way back down; Tyrone Power, from William Lindsay Gresham's novel.
Synopsis, reviewed
Details
- Director
- Edmund Goulding
- Writer
- Jules Furthman
- Composer
- Cyril J. Mockridge
- Cinematography
- Lee Garmes
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox
- Released
- 1947-10-09
- Awards
- 1 win total
- Running time
- 111 minutes
Cast & crew
Edmund Goulding Director
Tyrone Power
Joan Blondell
Coleen Gray
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Nightmare Alley · Greg Giorgio · 2025-05-15
You can’t build this kind of tension and carry the story without the depth of the work of Tyrone Power on this film. Great casting and support with atmospheric elements that bring you right into the carney Demi-monde. Glad I took the time to finally watch a real gem of a film from this great era.
