# Nightmare Alley (1947)

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**Runtime**: 111 min
**Genres**: Drama, Thriller, Crime
**Directed by**: Edmund Goulding
**Written by**: Jules Furthman
**Starring**: Tyrone Power, Helen Walker, Coleen Gray, Joan Blondell, Taylor Holmes, Mike Mazurki

> *He was all things to all men…But only one thing to all women!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Midnight carnival lights flashing, calliope music swirling, a worn ticket stub. A roustabout joins a traveling carnival, eyeing a mind-reading act. This film noir classic precedes many con artist tales.

**Mood tags**: dread, gut-punch, paranoid

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