Fiction
Blu-ray
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PUBLISHED
©2021
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1 videodisc (approximately 111 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
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Criterion collection #1078
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Based on the novel by William Lindsay Gresham
"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"--Container
Originally released as a motion picture in 1947
Full screen (1.37:1)
Insert featuring the essay by Kim Morgan has been removed
Special features: 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 of a 1971 interview with Henry King in which the filmmaker discusses actor Tyrone Power; trailer; essay by film writer and screenwriter Kim Morgan
Director of photography, Lee Garmes ; editor, Barbara McLean ; music, Cyril Mockridge
Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker, Taylor Holmes, Mike Mazurki, Ian Keith
Rating: Not rated
Blu-ray, region A; full screen (1.37:1) presentation; monaural; requires Blu-ray player
In English; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)
Subtitled in English for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)