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  • Actors: Tyrone Power, Coleen Gray, Joan Blondell, Helen Walker, Taylor Holmes
  • Directors: Edmund Goulding
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Eureka Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 14 Nov 2005
  • Run Time: 107 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • ASIN: B000BC8FZE
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 23,556 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Often described as the grimmest of all Hollywood film noirs, Nightmare Alley's reputation as a cult classic reached near-mythical status due to a decades-long dispute between the film's producer (George Jessel) and Fox, which prevented it being screened anywhere or even released on home video. With the conflict now resolved, Nightmare Alley can finally be re-discovered in this stunning new transfer as one of the most darkly sophisticated noirs of the period.


Special Features

Newly restored high definition transfer • Woody Haut introduces Nightmare Alley - a 10-minute video introduction to the film by celebrated noir historian and author Woody Haut • Woody Haut on Nightmare Alley - Woody goes into more detail (25 minutes) • Full-length audio commentary by film historians Alain Silver and James Ursini • Original theatrical trailer • 157-page continuity and dialogue script and the 17-page musical cue sheet (both in pdf format) • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing • 32-page booklet with a new essay by Woody Haut, and rare production stills
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4.0 out of 5 stars Tough-minded and tawdry: A first-rate noir, 13 Jun 2007
By C. O. DeRiemer (San Antonio, Texas, USA) - See all my reviews
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This is the rise and fall of a smooth-talking con man, played out in a tacky carnival sideshow, a ritzy Chicago nightclub and back to freak alley. Stanton Carlisle (Tyrone Power) is a two-bit opportunist, always on the lookout for a main chance, earning his keep in a mind-reading carnival sideshow act assisting Zeena, the mind-reader (Joan Blondell) and her lush of a husband. Carlyle can talk anybody out of just about anything, whether it's the secret code to fool the rubes from Zeena, the virginity from a young girl whom he is forced to marry (Coleen Gray) or the will to close down the show from a small town sheriff.

Carlisle reaches for the big-time, makes it and almost keeps it. But as they say, he reached too far. His mind-reading act is a big hit in Chicago, but the spook racket -- spiritualism -- looks even richer. From fooling the rubes its only a small step to stretching the law...and then stepping over the line. He hooks up with a classy psychologist, Lilith Ritter (Helen Walker), who turns out to be just as corrupt as he is. When the law comes looking, he finds out she is harder, more ruthless and just as willing to manipulate things as he fancied he was. He winds up just another carney drunk, grateful for a bottle and the worst job in the place.

When he was talking late one night with Pete Krumbein, Zeena's husband, before he made his big play for success, they watched the carnival's geek go crazy, running and screaming across the empty midway. "I remember that fella when he first showed up here," Pete says. "Who was he?" Carlisle asks. "He used to be plenty big-time." "Mental act?" "What difference does it make? He's cold smoked meat now. Just a bottle-a-day rumdum. He thinks his job's heaven as long as he has his bottle a day and a dry place to sleep it off in." They both know what the geek's job is...biting the heads off live chickens before a paying crowd.

This is a first-rate movie with a second-rate ending. The movie is tough-minded noir, with some terrific performances. Tyrone Power oozes cheap charm like hair oil. Helen Walker turns in a number that is fascinating, cold and unnerving. "I think you're a perfectly normal human being," she tells Carlisle. "Selfish and ruthless when you want something, generous and kindly when you've got it." What makes the movie work so well is the strong story. It grabs you at the start and keeps you with it...but then there's the ending. Hollywood often needs redemption, and that's what Hollywood gave the film story. Don't get me wrong; this remains a first-class noir. But do your self another favor (the first is to watch this film). Find a copy of the book, Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham. It'll knock you back when you read it. There's no redemption in the book.

The DVD picture looks very good.
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