Nightmare Alley

Edmund Goulding
United States, 1947

4K Digital Restoration

  • Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
    Eddie Muller

    Eddie Muller is founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation, director of the Noir City film festival, host of Noir Alley on TCM, and a novelist.

After viewing this picaresque and cathartic film, you will never again misuse the word ‘geek.’

Guy Maddin
featuring

Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker,

One of the darkest of the American film noirs of the 1940s, Nightmare Alley is amazing for the amount of cynical, sordid material it presents as a matter of course. Tyrone Power is a mind reader in a carnival sideshow, who ascends a ladder of gullible women all the way to Chicago, where he is on the verge of fame and fortune as a leader in the pseudo-religion market, and then plunges to the pit of carnival-life degradation. “Nightmare Alley is the quintessential B movie spoiled by an A production” (Clive T. Miller, Kings of the Bs). 

Judy Bloch
FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Jules Furthman
Based On

  • the novel by William Lindsay Gresham

Cinematographer
  • Lee Garmes
Print Info
  • B&W
  • DCP
  • 110 mins
Source
  • Criterion Pictures

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