Nightmare Alley

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Overview
A roustabout joins a traveling carny and schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoholic husband.
Reviews (2)
Steve (Rated: 8)
from NoiroftheWeek.com
This week I've been thinking about Nightmare Alley. It's a 1947 noir starring Tyrone Power
Time has been good to this one. The indispensable 70s movie book King of the B's: Working Within the Hollywood System has a fascinating piece on the film in an article written in ...
CinemaSerf (Rated: 7)
Tyrone Power is at his most alluring in this compelling story of "Stanton Carlisle". He starts out working as a general factotum with a travelling show where he meets "Zeena" (Joan Blondell). She is part of the mind-reading act with "Bruno" (Mike Mazurki) - a man who hits the bottle just once too of...
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