Nightmare Alley (1947)
- 10.0
- 111 mins
- Drama, Crime
Storyline
Roustabout Stanton Carlisle (Tyrone Power) joins a traveling carny and unsuccessfully schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena (Joan Blondell) and her alcoholic husband, Pete (Ian Keith). But when Pete dies, Zeena is forced to take on Stanton as a partner, and he quickly proves more gifted than his predecessor. Ambitious to a fault, Carlisle abandons Zeena and the carny to reinvent himself as "The Great Stanton," wowing high-class audiences in a Chicago hotel.
Plot Keywords
geek, mind reader, psychiatrist, strong man, con artist, dark, incredible, carnival, hotel, chicago, con game, ambition, rise, fall, 1940s
Short Review
One of the bleakest of all '40s flicks.
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