DVD
Nightmare alley
Call Number
- DVD MYSTERY/THRILLER (CEN)
Edition
DVD special edition.
Languages
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Performers
Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker, Taylor Holmes, Mike Mazurki, Ian Keith.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2021]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (111 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Audience
Not rated.
Uniform Title
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 and renowned book 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 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 fate-fueled downward slide into existential oblivion."--Container.
Notes
Based on the novel by William Lindsay Gresham.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1947.
Special features: New 4K digital restoration ; 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.