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