Nightmare Alley (1947) [Criterion Collection, Spine #1078]
BDRip 720p | MKV | AVC, 988x720, ~ 2.6 Mbps | 1hr 51mn | 2.39 GB
English: AC3, 1 ch, 256 kbps \ English (commentary): AC3, 1 ch, 192 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir
BDRip 720p | MKV | AVC, 988x720, ~ 2.6 Mbps | 1hr 51mn | 2.39 GB
English: AC3, 1 ch, 256 kbps \ English (commentary): AC3, 1 ch, 192 kbps
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Film-Noir
Director: Edmund Goulding
Writer: Jules Furthman (screenplay), William Lindsay Gresham (novel)
Stars: Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray
Darkness lurks behind the bright lights of a traveling carnival in one of the most haunting and perverse film noirs of the 1940s. Adapted from the scandalous best seller by William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley gave Tyrone Power a chance to subvert his matinee-idol image with a ruthless performance as Stanton Carlisle, a small-time carny whose unctuous charm propels him to fame as a charlatan spiritualist, but whose unchecked ambition leads him down a path of moral degradation and self-destruction. Although its strange, sordid atmosphere shocked contemporary audiences, this long-difficult-to-see reflection of postwar angst has now taken its place as one of the defining noirs of its era—a fatalistic downward slide into existential oblivion.
Extras:
- Audio commentary from 2005 featuring film historians James Ursini and Alain Silver
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