Thursday, December 26, 2024

NIGHTMARE ALLEY (1947)

 




















Directed by: Edmund Goulding
Based on the novel by: William Lindsay Gresham
Starring: Tyrone PowerJoan BlondellColeen GrayHelen WalkerTaylor HolmesMike MazurkiIan Keith

111 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
The ambitious Stanton "Stan" Carlisle works in a sideshow as carny and assistant of the mentalist Zeena Krumbein, who is married with the alcoholic Pete. The couple had developed a secret code to pretend to read minds and was successful in the show business before Pete starts drinking. Stan stays with them expecting to learn their code and leave the carnival to be a successful mentalist. Stan also flirts with the gorgeous Molly that lives in the carnival with the strong Bruno. Zeena and The Geek, an alcoholic man that bites the head off a live chicken that the audiences believe that is a savage, are the greatest attractions of the sideshow.

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