Nightmare alley, Twentieth Century Fox presents; directed by Edmund Goulding ; screenplay by Jules Furthman ; produced by George Jessel
Type
Label
Nightmare alley, Twentieth Century Fox presents; directed by Edmund Goulding ; screenplay by Jules Furthman ; produced by George Jessel
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
Nightmare alley
Medium
videorecording
Oclc number
1243629703
Responsibility statement
Twentieth Century Fox presents; directed by Edmund Goulding ; screenplay by Jules Furthman ; produced by George Jessel
Runtime
111
Series statement
Criterion collection, 1078
Summary
"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
Technique
live action
Classification
Contributor
- Gray, Coleen, 1922-2015
- Blondell, Joan
- Jessel, George, 1898-1981
- Walker, Helen, 1920-1968
- Furthman, Jules
- McLean, Barbara, 1903-1996
- Goulding, Edmund, 1891-1959
- Mockridge, Cyril J., Cyril John, 1896-1979
- Gresham, William Lindsay, 1909-1962
- Power, Tyrone, 1914-1958
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Garmes, Lee, 1898-1978
Genre
Subject
Content
resource.originPlace
resource.directorofphotography
resource.editorofmovingimagework
resource.filmdirector
resource.filmproducer
Is Part Of
composerexpression
Publisher
resource.screenwriter
Mapped to
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Contributor12
- Gray, Coleen, 1922-2015
- Blondell, Joan
- Jessel, George, 1898-1981
- Walker, Helen, 1920-1968
- Furthman, Jules
- McLean, Barbara, 1903-1996
- Goulding, Edmund, 1891-1959
- Mockridge, Cyril J., Cyril John, 1896-1979
- Gresham, William Lindsay, 1909-1962
- Power, Tyrone, 1914-1958
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Garmes, Lee, 1898-1978
- Genre6
- Subject11
- Content1
- resource.originPlace1
- Actor4
- resource.directorofphotography1
- resource.editorofmovingimagework1
- resource.filmdirector1
- resource.filmproducer1
- Is Part Of1
- composerexpression1
- Publisher1
- resource.screenwriter1
- Mapped to1