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The Best Films You’Ve Never Seen – James Napoli’s rental of the week -- This week: Nightmare Alley (1947)

19 April 2009 | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Written by James Napoli This Week: Nightmare Alley (1947) – Con artists in a creepy traveling carny show fuel a terrific noir about greed, faith and a doomed anti-hero. Storytellers have long tapped into the tale of Oedipus Rex for inspiration. They are drawn not only to the more lurid revelations of murdering one’s father and marrying one’s mother (neither of which, sorry to disappoint, happen other than obliquely in this film), but to the time-tested themes of arrogance, denial of fate and a spiraling downward once the horrible truth of one’s sins is revealed. The film noir was always, of course, a great place to explore a fall from grace, and Tyrone Power’s Nightmare Alley character, the carnival mentalist Stanton Carlisle, takes one of the more complete and inglorious falls of anyone in the genre when his bogus ... »

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