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Fox Noir
The Dark Corner
Laura
Panic in the Streets
House of Bamboo
The Street With No Name
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1. Main Titles [1:17]
2. The Geek Freak Show [3:49]
3. What Madame Zeena Knows [4:57]
4. Teach Me the Code [2:50]
5. Making the Big Time [1:40]
6. How the Cards Fall [2:13]
7. Visions From the Crystal Glass [4:28]
8. The End of Pete [6:50]
9. A Code of Success [1:25]
10. A Carnival Engagement Party [3:05]
11. The Great Stanton [8:52]
12. A Scientific Explanation [1:51]
13. Old Friends, Dangerous Predictions [5:42]
14. Beyond the Code [3:46]
15. From Talent to Deceit [:30]
16. Testing God [3:46]
17. To Bear a False Witness [3:45]
18. Cornered [7:51]
19. The Hanged Man [5:26]
20. Stanton the Geek [4:15]
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Commentary by historians James Ursini & Alain Silver
Art Director - Russell J. Spencer
Art Director - Lyle Wheeler
Book Author - William Lindsay Gresham
Cinematographer - Lee Garmes
Composer (Music Score) - Cyril Mockridge
Costume Designer - Bonnie Cashin
Makeup - Ben Nye, Sr.
Musical Direction/Supervision - Lionel Newman
Sound/Sound Designer - Roger Heman
Sound/Sound Designer - E. Clayton Ward
Special Effects - Fred Sersen
Aiming to prove his acting ability and stretch his image, leading man Tyrone Power pushed to star as a tragically ambitious spiritualist/con man in Edmund Goulding's film noir melodrama Nightmare Alley (1947). In Jules Furthman's adaptation of a William Lindsay Gresham novel, Power's conniving Stan rises from carny barker to renowned "psychic" only to be done in by a woman and his own guilt. Though Stan's eventual fate may be clear from the moment that he first lays eyes on the sideshow's debased "geek," the bleak story is unusually (and fascinatingly) squalid for a Hollywood studio production, even given the obligatory final moment of redemption. Swathing Stan's spiritual corruption in a somber yet dream-like atmosphere, Lee Garmes's expressive cinematography reaches a surreal apex of light and shadow when Stan pretends to conjure the spirit of a dead woman in a wealthy client's garden amid the obliquely lit trees and bushes. Bolstered by an excellent supporting cast including Joan Blondell as a used and abandoned sideshow soothsayer and Helen Walker as a criminal who actually gets away with it, Power gave one of the best performances of his career, but Nightmare Alley failed at the box office. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
