#1078: GOULDING, Edmund: Nightmare Alley (1947)
GOULDING, Edmund
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The Booklet
Twelve-page wraparound featuring an essay by film writer and screenwriter Kim Morgan.
Commentary
From 2005 featuring film historians James Ursini and Alain Silver.
Interview 1
With critic Imogen Sara Smith.
Interview 2
With performer and historian Todd Robbins.
Interview 3
From 2007 with actor Gray.
Audio excerpt
From a 1971 interview with Henry King in which the filmmaker discusses actor Power.
Trailer
Extras Rating (0-40):
Nightmare Alley (1947)
Spine #1078
Blu-ray
Blu-ray
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 Stan 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 fate-fueled downward slide into existential oblivion.
111 minutes
Black and White
Black and White
Monaural
1:37:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2021
Director/Writers
Goulding (left)
Based on the novel by William Lindsay Gresham.
Screenplay by Jules Furthman.
Edmund Goulding was 56 when he directed Nightmare Alley.
The Film
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Film Rating (0-60):
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Twelve-page wraparound featuring an essay by film writer and screenwriter Kim Morgan.
Commentary
From 2005 featuring film historians James Ursini and Alain Silver.
Interview 1
With critic Imogen Sara Smith.
Interview 2
With performer and historian Todd Robbins.
Interview 3
From 2007 with actor Gray.
Audio excerpt
From a 1971 interview with Henry King in which the filmmaker discusses actor Power.
Trailer
Extras Rating (0-40):
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