Nightmare Alley
The rise and fall of Stanton Carlisle, a mentalist whose lies and deceit prove to be his downfall.
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"One of the most obscure films produced by classic Hollywood. It's Tyrone Power in the role of his life and the tragedy of an ambitious circus apprentice becoming a con artist and gradually turning into a pseudo-religious guru. Both director Edmund Goulding (Grand Hotel, Dark Victory) and writer W.L. Gresham committed suicide, and one can smell suicide in this gem of a film, that is the story of the embezzlement of a gift. That circus operates as a good metaphor of the B-system Hollywood of the 40's, where geeks worked side by sided with geniuses. The tarot cards foresee the worst: th..."
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The studio built a full carnival set on the back lot at 20th Century Fox covering ten acres, and hired over 100 sideshow attractions and carnival workers.
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The rise and fall of Stanton Carlisle, a mentalist whose lies and deceit prove to be his downfall.