Nightmare Alley

Nightmare Alley

1947 · 111 min · EN · NR · 7.1 (184 votes)
Dir. Edmund Goulding · Starring Tyrone Power, Helen Walker, Coleen Gray, Joan Blondell, Taylor Holmes, Mike Mazurki

He was all things to all men … but only one thing to all women!

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Stanton Carlisle joins a seedy carnival, working with "Mademoiselle Zeena" and her alcoholic husband, Pete.

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A dark, smoky descent into the underbelly of ambition and deceit. The carnival's grimy allure gives way to a chilling exploration of human frailty and the high cost of playing with fate.

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