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Nightmare Alley
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Referenced in
"Sanford and Son: Brother, Can You Spare an Act? (#5.6)" (1975)
 -  Rodney mentions the movie in which Tyrone Power played the Geek.
R.I.P., Rest in Pieces (1997)
 -  As an inspiration to documentary subject Joe Coleman.
I'm Not There. (2007)
 -  The carnival shots are direct replicas of the carnival in this classic Film Noir that inspired Dylan's own "Ballad of a Thin Man," in particular the verse about the "geek"...later shots particularly in the "Mr. Jones" (Bruce Greenwood) sequence, set to Ballad of a Thin Man, replicate Tyrone Power's descent into madness and eventual "Geekdom".
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20th Century-Fox: The First 50 Years (1997) (TV)
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