Nightmare Alley – Full Movie – GOOD QUALITY (1947)

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Nightmare Alley is a 1947 film noir starring Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell and Coleen Gray – and directed by Edmund Goulding. The film is based on the 1946 novel of the same name, written by William Lindsay Gresham.

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Power, wishing to expand beyond the romantic and swashbuckler roles that brought him to fame, bought the rights to the novel so he could star as the unsavory lead, “The Great Stanton”, a scheming carnival barker. The film premiered in the United States on October 9, 1947, then went into wide release on October 28, 1947, later having six more European releases between November 1947 to May 1954.
To make the film more believable, the producers built a full working carnival on ten acres (40,000 m2) of the 20th Century Fox back lot. They also hired over 100 sideshow attractions and carnival people to add further authenticity.
Nightmare Alley was somewhat unusual among film noir in having top stars, production staff and a relatively large budget. Despite a strong promotion campaign, the film was not a financial success upon its original release, due in part to protests against some of the scandalous content. The film has found acclaim and is regarded as a classic.

PLOT (Minor Spoilers)
Roustabout Stanton Carlisle (Tyrone Power) joins a traveling carny and unsuccessfully schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena (Joan Blondell) and her alcoholic husband, Pete (Ian Keith). But when Pete dies, Zeena is forced to take on Stanton as a partner, and he quickly proves more gifted than his predecessor. Ambitious to a fault, Carlisle abandons Zeena and the carny to reinvent himself as “The Great Stanton,” wowing high-class audiences in a Chicago hotel.

CAST
Tyrone Power as Stanton “Stan” Carlisle
Joan Blondell as Zeena Krumbein
Coleen Gray as Molly Carlisle
Helen Walker as Lilith Ritter
Taylor Holmes as Ezra Grindle
Mike Mazurki as Bruno
Ian Keith as Pete Krumbein

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22 Replies to “Nightmare Alley – Full Movie – GOOD QUALITY (1947)”

  4. I'm so glad I watched this version first. Because watching the new one is not as good as the original in my opinion. And I'm glad i saw the original first

  12. La roche tarpéïenne est près du Capitole et quelquefois l'amour fait parachute au dernier moment. Never ever will there be scripts, directors, cinematographers and actors like this.

  13. Interesting thing to note is that the ending of the film here indicates Molly is going to begin a relationship with Stan but it will be in the long run mirror identical to the relationship that Zeena and Pete had in the beginning of the film. In other words, Stan and Molly will probably get married but he'll most likely remain an alcoholic and Molly will for now have to care for him. This is starkly different from the source novel which finds Stan is very likely to be doomed to be a carnival geek until he drinks himself to death tragically.

  15. Thanks Smoking Hat for the films you share. This is a classic and very good performances as well. What a shame Tyrone Power died so young and didn’t get to see his legacy.

    4 January 2023

  16. great film,i think it should have finished with stan in the geek booth.i know of a person who has taken care of a drunk for 7 years.not a happy story.thanks…even when things are bad keep away from the bottle.

  20. loved this. i do prefer it to del toro’s, though i loved his remake as well. but i think he was right to cap it after that final line in the interview… the ending afterwards here is the weakest part of an otherwise pitch perfect movie. still, a masterpiece!

  21. Just viewed this masterpiece after not seeing it for years. Oh, boy! I was SO impressed with Power's masterful performance, one the finest I have ever seen. Watch it and be enthralled. Not a hit (in fact a flop upon release) it is now considered one of the finest Noirs ever made and rightfully so. The direction, performances and story is top-drawer. A thoroughly fascinating film for those in the mood.

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