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Film Noir ClassicsNIGHTMARE ALLEY (1947)
Monday, October 6th at 7:30 PM
Hosted by professor Foster Hirsch
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. (USA, 1947, 110 mins, English | Dir. Edmund Goulding)
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Cinema Arts Centre, 423 Park Ave, Huntington, NY 11743-2803, United States
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