NIGHTMARE ALLEY (CRITERION COLLECTION) [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1947
• Genre: Drama, Film-Noir
• Plot: Darkness lurks behind the bright lights of a traveling carnival in one of the most haunting and perverse film noirs of the 1940s. Adapted from the scandalous best seller by William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley gave Tyrone Power a chance to subvert his matinee-idol image with a ruthless performance as Stanton Carlisle, a small-time carny whose unctuous charm propels him to fame as a charlatan spiritualist, but whose unchecked ambition leads him down a path of moral degradation and self-destruction. Although its strange, sordid atmosphere shocked contemporary audiences, this long-difficult-to-see reflection of postwar angst has now taken its place as one of the defining noirs of its era—a fatalistic downward slide into existential oblivion.
• Cast: Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker, Taylor Holmes, Mike Mazurki, Ian Keith, Florence Auer, Bonnie Bannon, George Beranger, Oliver Blake, June Bolyn, Paul Bradley, Chet Brandenburg, James Burke, George Chandler, Harry Cheshire, Edward Clark, Clancy Cooper, George Davis, Julia Dean, Sayre Dearing, James Flavin, Charles Flickinger, Bill Free, Rudy Germane, Nina Gilbert, Leo Gray, Henry Hall, Al Herman, Hollis Jewell, Robert Karnes, Kenner G. Kemp, Mike Lally, Nellie Lane, Max Linder, George Lloyd, King Lockwood, Laurette Luez, Emmett Lynn, Wilbur Mack, George Magrill, George Matthews, Pat McKee, Jerry Miley, Harry Hays Morgan, Maurice Navarro, Frank O'Connor, Jack Perry, Jack Raymond, Cyril Ring, Albin Robeling, Roy Roberts, Gene Roth, Frank J. Scannell, Cy Schindell, Norman Stevans, Bert Stevens, John Wald, Eddy Waller, Gilbert Wilson, Marjorie Wood, Edmund Goulding, Jules Furthman, William Lindsay Gresham, George Jessel, Darryl F. Zanuck, Lee Garmes, Barbara McLean, Cyril J. Mockridge, J. Russell Spencer, Lyle R. Wheeler
• Director: Edmund Goulding
• Runtime: 1:51
• Company: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (20th Century Fox Film Corporation), Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment), The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie