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Sunday, July 22, 2018











     Nightmare Alley
1947  NR  DRAMA  1h 41min
CAST— Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker, Taylor Holmes, Mike Mazurki, Ian Keith, Julia Dean
MUSIC— Cyril J. Mockridge  DIRECTOR— Edmund Goulding  BASED ON— Nightmare Alley (novel), by William Lindsay Gresham

     Absorbing tale of the rise of a star and the fall of a chump. Tyrone Power plays a carnival worker who seduces a phony psychic, hoping to coerce her into selling him a top selling act. Once he has the act he takes the fast track to fame; but even that isn’t enough for him. He teams up with an amoral psychologist to form a new act, half psychic, half evangelist, roping wealthy clients into spending extravagant amounts for his cause. But nothing lasts forever. He quickly descends to new depths, eventually becoming a carnival attraction himself. Unusual tale yet engrossing entertainment.
OUR RATING— ***
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