Nightmare Alley

Nightmare Alley is a 1947 film noir, directed by Edmund Goulding, starring Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell. The film is based on the 1946 novel of the same title by William Lindsay Gresham.

Plot
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.

Cast

 * Tyrone Power as Stanton "Stan" Carlisle
 * Joan Blondell as Zeena Krumbein
 * Coleen Gray as Molly Carlisle
 * Helen Walker as Lilith Ritter
 * Taylor Holmes as Ezra Grindle
 * Mike Mazurki as Bruno
 * Ian Keith as Pete Krumbein