Nightmare Alley

Steve

8.0

March 01, 2018

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 1974 by Clive T. Miller. He writes: ...

CinemaSerf

7.0

July 07, 2022

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 often. She begins to teach him the tricks ...