Nightmare alley

DVD 1947

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 Stan Carlisle, a small-time carny whose unctuous charm propels him to fame as a charlatan spiritualist, but whose unchecked ambition leads him d...

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ISBN:

9781681438368

Edition:

DVD special edition

Description:

1 videodisc (111 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inches
polychrome
digital
optical
surround
Dolby Digital 1.0
full screen
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: PG

Notes:

Based on the novel by William Lindsay Gresham
Originally released as a motion picture in 1947
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
Title from container
Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker, Taylor Holmes
DVD ; full screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 1.0
For private home use only
Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH)
Audio tracks in English, captions in English

Control Number:

3068167

UPC:

024543315551
715515259118

Other Authors:

Blondell, Joan, actor
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher
Goulding, Edmund, 1891-1959, film director
Gray, Coleen, 1922-2015, actor
Power, Tyrone, 1914-1958, actor
Walker, Helen, 1920-1968, actor
motion picture adaptation of (work): Gresham, William Lindsay, 1909-1962. Nightmare alley

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