Nightmare Alley

Nightmare Alley is a 1947 film noir, directed by Edmund Goulding, starring Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell. The film is based on the 1946 novel of the same title by William Lindsay Gresham.
==Plot==
Roustabout Stanton Carlisle (Tyrone Power) joins a traveling carny and unsuccessfully schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena (Joan Blondell) and her alcoholic husband, Pete (Ian Keith). But when Pete dies, Zeena is forced to take on Stanton as a partner, and he quickly proves more gifted than his predecessor. Ambitious to a fault, Carlisle abandons Zeena and the carny to reinvent himself as "The Great Stanton," wowing high-class audiences in a Chicago hotel.
==Cast==
*Tyrone Power as Stanton "Stan" Carlisle
*Joan Blondell as Zeena Krumbein
*Coleen Gray as Molly Carlisle
*Helen Walker as Lilith Ritter
*Taylor Holmes as Ezra Grindle
*Mike Mazurki as Bruno
*Ian Keith as Pete Krumbein
Category:1947 films
Category:American films
Category:English-language films
Category:1940s films
Category:Films
Category:American crime drama films
Category:Crime drama films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Black-and-white films
Category:Film noir
Category:Films based on American novels
Category:Films based on novels
Category:20th Century Fox films
Category:Films directed by Edmund Goulding
Category:Films shot in Chicago
Category:Films shot in Los Angeles