Nightmare Alley

Locations
Call Number: DVD Film-Noir Nightmare
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 1st Floor 1-week checkout	DVD Film-Noir Nightmare	1-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 1st Floor 1-week checkout	DVD Film-Noir Nightmare	1-week checkout	Due 05-01-2024
Westgate Adult A/V 1-week checkout	DVD Film-Noir Nightmare	1-week checkout	On Shelf

Based on the novel by William Lindsay Gresham.
Full screen (1.37:1).
Originally released as a motion picture in 1947.
Special features: 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 of a 1971 interview with Henry King in which the filmmaker discusses actor Tyrone Power; trailer; essay by film writer and screenwriter Kim Morgan.
Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker, Taylor Holmes, Mike Mazurki, Ian Keith.
"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"--Container.
DVD, NTSC, region 1; full screen (1.37:1); Dolby monaural.
Contents: Nightmare alley.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Quality Noir submitted by kencza on June 22, 2022, 2:17pm All the characters you would expect to see at a vintage carnival are here including the "Geek", fortune tellers, magicians, and more. Tyrone Power as a swindling mentalist is despicable and his performance carries the movie.
A good supporting cast and mood enhancing lighting and aesthetics help make this a film noir classic