Nightmare alley:

"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 per...

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Main Authors: Gresham, William Lindsay 1909-1962 (Author), Mockridge, Cyril J. 1896-1979 (Composer)
Other Authors: Furthman, Jules 1888-1966 (Screenwriter), Garmes, Lee 1898-1978 (Cinematographer), Cashin, Bonnie 1915-2000 (Costume designer), Power, Tyrone 1914-1958 (Actor), Blondell, Joan 1906-1979 (Actor), Gray, Coleen 1922-2015 (Actor)
Format: Video Software
Language:English
Published: [New York, NY] The Criterion Collection [2021]
Series:The Criterion collection 1078
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Summary:"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." [criterion.com]
Item Description:Original: USA 1947
DVD special edition features: new 4K digital restoration ; audio commentary from 2005 featuring film historians James Ursini and Alain Silver ; new interview with critic Imogen Sara Smith ; new interview with performer and historian Todd Robbins ; interview from 2007 with actor Coleen Gray ; audio excerpt from a 1971 interview with Henry King in which the filmmaker discusses actor Tyrone Power ; trailer ; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing ; plus: An essay by film writer and screenwriter Kim Morgan
Bildformat 1.37:1
Physical Description:1 DVD-Video (111 min) schwarz-weiß 1 Faltblatt
ISBN:9781681438368

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