Nightmare Alley (1947)

Name: Nightmare Alley (1947)
Start: 2024-11-27T19:00:00-05:00
Location: 290 Harvard St, Brookline, MA, United States, Massachusetts 02446

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Wed Nov 27 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

290 Harvard St, Brookline, MA, United States, Massachusetts 02446 | Brookline, MA

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 best seller by William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley gave Tyrone Power a chance to subvert his matinee-idol image with a ruthless performance as Stanton 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 fatalistic downward slide into existential oblivion.