Nightmare Alley (1947 film)

Nightmare Alley is a 1947 film noir starring Tyrone Power and featuring Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, and Helen Walker. The film was directed by Edmund Goulding. The film is based on the 1946 novel of the same title, written by William Lindsay Gresham. Power, wishing to expand beyond the romantic and swashbuckler roles that brought him to fame, requested 20th Century Fox's studio chief Darryl F. Zanuck to buy the rights to the novel so he could star as the unsavory lead, "The Great Stanton", a scheming carnival barker.

Nightmare Alley (1947 film)

Nightmare Alley is a 1947 film noir starring Tyrone Power and featuring Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, and Helen Walker. The film was directed by Edmund Goulding. The film is based on the 1946 novel of the same title, written by William Lindsay Gresham. Power, wishing to expand beyond the romantic and swashbuckler roles that brought him to fame, requested 20th Century Fox's studio chief Darryl F. Zanuck to buy the rights to the novel so he could star as the unsavory lead, "The Great Stanton", a scheming carnival barker.