The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on March 10, 2022

Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley is a haunting and mesmerizing film experience. Set in the late 1930s, Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper) is a man running from his past sins. The opening images of him hiding a body under floorboards and then burning the whole house down, haunt him. He stumbles...   read more

Caftan Woman Posted by on April 16, 2019

The Classic Movie Blog Association Spring Blogathon runs from April 16th to the 19th with a focus on the Femme/Homme Fatales of Film Noir. Click HERE for the fascinating articles. Tyrone Power stars as Stanton Carlisle, con man extraordinaire whose biggest fall guy was himself. Stan is a fe   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on March 21, 2019

Tyrone Power was a handsome fellow and it led to a meteoric rise among Hollywood’s elite. But as often is the case, a pretty face can be your undoing as people only see a movie idol and not an actor. Daryl Zanuck for one saw one of his biggest box...   read more

Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on November 10, 2017

(1947) Directed by Edmund Goulding; Written by Jules Furthman; Based on the novel by William Lindsay Gresham; Starring: Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker, Taylor Holmes, and Mike Mazurki; Available on DVD Rating ****½ “Listen to me, I'm no good. I neve   read more

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on April 30, 2014

Tyrone Power is best remembered today as a swashbuckling hero, but in Nightmare Alley (1947) the star gets to revel in his darker side, using his good looks and intense charisma to chilling effect as a callous heel whose con games inevitably catch up with him. Directed by Edmund Goulding,...   read more

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on April 30, 2014

Tyrone Power is best remembered today as a swashbuckling hero, but in Nightmare Alley (1947) the star gets to revel in his darker side, using his good looks and intense charisma to chilling effect as a callous heel whose con games inevitably catch up with him. Directed by Edmund Goulding,...   read more

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on April 30, 2014

Tyrone Power is best remembered today as a swashbuckling hero, but in Nightmare Alley (1947) the star gets to revel in his darker side, using his good looks and intense charisma to chilling effect as a callous heel whose con games inevitably catch up with him. Directed by Edmund Goulding,...   read more

Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on June 17, 2013

Nightmare Alley Edmund Goulding 1947/USA Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Repeat viewing I radically revised my opinion of this deeply cynical carnival noir for the better after a several year hiatus.  I liked it so much this time I can’t imagine what I was thinking before.  I must hav   read more

Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on February 20, 2013

Woodcut print by Guy Budziak Coney Island's first so-called "freak show" opened in 1880, but the heyday of its sideshow attractions began nearly 25 years later when Samuel W. Gumpertz opened "Lilliputia" at Dreamland, one of the site's three major amusement parks. Wildly popular with tourists, "Lil   read more

Lady Eve's Reel Life Posted by The Lady Eve on February 20, 2013

Woodcut print by Guy Budziak Coney Island's first so-called "freak show" opened in 1880, but the heyday of its sideshow attractions began nearly 25 years later when Samuel W. Gumpertz opened "Lilliputia" at Dreamland, one of the site's three major amusement parks. Wildly popular with tourists, "Lil   read more

Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on November 30, -0001

Adapted by Guillermo del Toro and Kim Morgan, Nightmare Alley (2021) is a magnificent adaptation that honors the film noir classic while giving contemporary audiences a grittier and more nuanced look at William Lindsay Gresham's story.Stan (Bradley Cooper) has a dark past. One he leaves behind as he   read more

Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on November 30, -0001

Adapted by Guillermo del Toro and Kim Morgan, Nightmare Alley (2021) is a magnificent adaptation that honors the film noir classic while giving contemporary audiences a grittier and more nuanced look at William Lindsay Gresham's story.Stan (Bradley Cooper) has a dark past. One he leaves behind as he   read more