Nightmare Alley (Criterion Collection)

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	Tyrone Power	Stanton Carlisle
	Joan Blondell	Zeena Krumbein
	Coleen Gray	Molly
	Helen Walker	Dr. Lilith Ritter
	Taylor Holmes	Ezra Grindle
	Mike Mazurki	Bruno
	Ian Keith	Pete Krumbein
	Florence Auer	Jane
	Bonnie Bannon	Knife Thrower's Assistant
	George Beranger	The Geek
	Oliver Blake	Hobo
	June Bolyn	Maid in Grindle House
	Paul Bradley	Man in Spode Room
	Chet Brandenburg	Carnival Patron
	James Burke	Rural Marshal
	George Chandler	Hobo at Stan's Left Hand
	Harry Cheshire	Mr. Prescott
	Edward Clark	J.E. Giles
	Clancy Cooper	Stage Manager
	George Davis	Waiter
	Julia Dean	Addie Peabody
	Sayre Dearing	Night Club Patron
	James Flavin	Hoatley
	Charles Flickinger	Bellboy
	Bill Free	Man in Spode Room

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Director	Edmund Goulding
Writer	Jules Furthman, William Lindsay Gresham
Producer	George Jessel, Darryl F. Zanuck
Musician	Cyril J. Mockridge
Photography	Lee Garmes

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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 Stanton 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 fatalistic downward slide into existential oblivion.

SPECIAL FEATURES
New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Audio commentary from 2005 featuring film historians James Ursini and Alain Silver
New interview with critic Imogen Sara Smith
New interview with performer and historian Todd Robbins
Interview from 2007 with actor Coleen Gray
Audio excerpt from a 1971 interview with Henry King in which the filmmaker discusses actor Tyrone Power
Trailer
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: An essay by film writer and screenwriter Kim Morgan

New cover by Ricardo Diseño

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