Nightmare Alley (1947) Trailer
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@nemeckathleen1 I agree this was a great performance and deserved more support.
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Well, folks . . . Gray & Walker ARE attractive, but don't forget---in her day, Joan Blondell was built like a brick . . . "comfort station."
Gary in Arizona
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Ottimo..!!
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thumbs up if la noire brought u here
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Coleen Gray is so hawt... and Helen Walker is amazing in this film!
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This film was just a cheap flick...come on! A film that has the leading man become...a GEEK?
Really, any half way talented writer could have come up with a better story about con men (and women). As Trash, it's campy...but as art? Not. Under light everything and call it Noir...but as Noir goes, it's not on a level with the best. Corny at best.
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@beki611 yeah TP, Rock Hudson and Max Von Sydow are my two three favorite actors not because of the entire body of their work but one or two perfect masterpieces that nobody else can even come close
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I really don't understand why Zanuck or others never liked him in this role. I feel the opposite. I think he was magnificent. I am a fan of Tyrone's and I always thought he should have received the recognition he so rightly deserved an Academy Award. If Kirk Douglas received an honorary award why can't Tyrone Power!
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@OrfamayQuest Yes, perhaps, but that's not anything like the one-way street to Hell of the geek. The geek is introduced early as a terrible fate, and logically that's where I would have ended it. I think Power would have, too, but I can't think of an A studio that would accept such and ending for commercial reasons. B's yes, and that's why we have such great noirs.
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@Claudius131 I never thought it was a real redemption--basically he and Molly were going to end up as Pete and Zeena.
Tyrone Power considered this his best performance ever;and, I totally agree.
beki611 3 years ago 7
Undoubtedly. Another great one is "Mask of Dimitrios" with Sydney Greenstreet & Peter Lorre. Allegedly, Darryl Zanuck had no faith in this project at all. Ty Power had to virtually-beg to get it made. Zanuck threw them a minuscule-budget, and assigned George Jessel to produce, as he had had a background in carnys. My mom told me she remembered seeing this on the "lower-half" of a double-bill(around 1948) here in L.A., proving Fox had no faith in promoting it at all! R.J.
bchfront 3 years ago 3