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Nightmare Alley (1947)  link to Nightmare Alley on IMDb  

Number: 2202

poster Nightmare Alley

IMDb Rating:
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7.8/10 (5712 votes)

Country: USA, 110 minutes

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Film-Noir

Director(s): Edmund Goulding

Video Codec: Unknown

Storyline:
The ambitious Stanton "Stan" Carlisle works in a sideshow as carny and assistant of the mentalist Zeena Krumbein, who is married with the alcoholic Pete. The couple had developed a secret code to pretend to read minds and was successful in the show business before Pete starts drinking. Stan stays with them expecting to learn their code and leave the carnival to be a successful mentalist. Stan also flirts with the gorgeous Molly that lives in the carnival with the strong Bruno. Zeena and The Savage, an alcoholic man that eats live chickens that the audiences believe that is a savage, are the greatest attractions of the sideshow. When Stan gives booze to Pete and he dies, Stan finds that Pete had drunk methyl alcohol and not his booze, but he feels guilty for the death of him. Zeena teaches the code to him and Molly helps Stan to learn them. After an incident, Stan is forced to marry Molly and he decides to move to Chicago with her to become a sensation in a night club. One day, he ...

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Cast:

photo Tyrone Power Tyrone Power Stanton 'Stan' Carlisle
photo Joan Blondell Joan Blondell Zeena Krumbein
photo Coleen Gray Coleen Gray Molly
photo Helen Walker Helen Walker Lilith Ritter
photo Taylor Holmes Taylor Holmes Ezra Grindle

Medium: Unknown,

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 4:3