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margowendice · 28 days

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"How can a guy get so low?"

"He reached too high."

Nightmare Alley (1947)

director. Edmund Goulding

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charlottenewtons · 6 months

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It takes one to catch one.

Tyrone Power and Helen Walker in Nightmare Alley (1947)

#nightmare alley #nightmare alley 1947 #oldhollywoodedit #filmedit #tyrone power #helen walker #my thing #userhollywood #cinemaspast #classicfilmsource #noirvember #that she scammed him and got away with it <3

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mourningmaybells · 2 years

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Updated tragedy alignment chart

I would have added on to the original post but I can’t find it anymore

Update 2: Lain from Serial Experiments Lain and Judas from The Last Temptation of Christ have been added! Also, moved Hadestown to the first row since it seemed more fitting.

Update 3: Added the last column as a new category after reading the book “The Left Hand of Darkness”... christ

Update 4: Damien Karras has entered the ring! From the book and movie adaptation of The Exorcist. Dyer absolved him before he died, and some background told me that the book was about whether or not he could save his soul by the end. Close enough. I like him despite the author. Still wish he lived his death made me sad for 4 months which is a long time to be sad. Also added House of Leaves. If you know you know.

#tlhod #rgu #citizen kane #oedipus rex #antigone #rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead #nightmare alley 1947 #hadestown #better call saul #sunset boulevard #the idiot #fyodor dostoevsky #house 1977 #nastasya filippovna #the last temptation of christ #serial experiments lain #the exorcist 1973 #the exorcist by william peter blatty #house of leaves

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junospooky · 21 days

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she is my mother, i was born of her.

Nightmare Alley, 1947 dir. Edmund Goulding

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danu2203 · 1 year

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LAST NIGHT’S TYRONE POWER DOUBLE FEATURE...THE RAZOR’S EDGE...1946

SECOND FEATURE...NIGHTMARE ALLEY...1947

#THE RAZOR'S EDGE 1946 #NIGHTMARE ALLEY 1947 #TYRONE POWER

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straydog733 · 1 year

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Watching Resolution: Nightmare Alley (1947)

2. A black and white film: Nightmare Alley (1947)

List Progress: 5/12

There are few settings as narratively rich as a carnival or circus. An author can tell a travel story, a con-artist story, a performer story, a runaway story, a mysterious past story, and much more, all with a veneer of both glitz and skeeze. The 1946 novel, Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham, used the setting to great avail, and it was adapted a year later into a noir film of the same name. The 1947 Nightmare Alley is an atmospheric, moody descent into depravity, and while it loses some of its way in the third act (not coincidentally at the same time that the story leaves the carnival), the result is still a potent piece of filmmaking (and arguably a more successful film than the recent 2021 adaptation).

Nightmare Alley follows Stanton Carlisle, a carnival worker who tries to con his way into glory, only to fly too close to the sun. He starts as a basic roustabout, but finds where his true talents lie when he gets involved with the carnival’s mentalism act. He hits the road with his girlfriend in tow to sell himself as a psychic, and it’s not too long before this evolves into some serious delusions of grandeur. He teams up with a scheming psychiatrist to try his biggest con yet, but his hubris and his disregard for those around him were always bound to catch up with him.

The movie is at its best when it is a close, tight character piece; Stan’s relationship with the carnival mentalists, a passionate woman named Zeena and her alcoholic husband Pete, brings a lot of nuance and detail to the first act, and the film is wise to introduce these relationships as already established. (The 2021 adaptation spends far, far too long getting to the meat of the story.) His rise to fame makes sense, but the biggest stumbling block for the film comes in Stan’s transition to “spook shows”, or convincing people that he can speak to their deceased loved ones. It becomes very unclear what his actual goals and methods are, and how much he and those around him believe in what he’s peddling, which makes it harder to determine where the con begins and ends.

Despite these issues with the third act, Nightmare Alley is a great bit of noir filmmaking, with great central performances and images that will stay with audiences for a while. And at the very least, it’s fun to see a lot of spooky carnival tropes when they were still fairly new.

Would I Recommend It: Yes.

#straydog's watching resolution #nightmare alley #nightmare alley 1947

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misforgotten2 · 1 year

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Baltimore is the center of the French fashion world after all.

Vogue February 1, 1947

#vintage ads #vintage ad #advertising #advertisment #fashion advertising #fashion ad #nightmare alley 1947 #womens shoes #shoes #1940s #1940s ad #1940s style #1940's #1940's ad #1940's fashion #funny #humor #humour

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schlock-luster-video · 1 year

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On March 27, 1948 Nightmare Alley debuted in Australia.

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bats-in-my-pants · 2 years

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Nightmare Alley (1947) – German release poster

#Nightmare Alley #nightmare alley 1947 #film poster #tyrone power #edmund goulding #film noir #noir #film

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aliceat97point3 · 1 month

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Every time I go farther up the chain of adaptation for Nightmare Alley I end up deeply disappointed in whatever film adaptation I've seen just before.

Nightmare Alley is the story of a possible sociopath learning mentalism and using it to way up the social ladder until he reaches too high by pushing the wrong people too far.

First came 2021 film: Great visuals, Good actors, okay writing. About half an hour too long in my opinion. themes of manipulating with Christianity, what drives people to drink or not drink, how psychology can be used for good or for ill, how parents fuck up their kids. Not quite as indepth as I wanted but yeah overall not bad

Second: 1947 film: 40 minutes shorter! Characters more compelling, plot more dynamic but cinematography a little lacking. Overall I enjoyed it way more. They nixed the parental themes but all the other themes are stronger for it. Has a slightly happier ending than it should've but I suspect Haze coad shenanigans.

Third: Wikipedia summary of the novel hits harder than either movie!!

fourth: Book review coming soon (probably on my second blog) but OH MY GOD I AM PISSED THAT THE 2021 VERSION IS BASICLY JUST THE '47 VERSION plus some random "edgy" additions that kinda prove no one read the book because the stuff they add makes Stan seem like a way better person than he is in the book. and that's definitely not the right vibe for this story

#nightmare alley 2021 #nightmare alley 1947 #nightmare alley book #media review #kinda #more ranting

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gameraboy2 · 8 months

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Coleen Gray in Nightmare Alley (1947)

#my gif #Nightmare Alley #Coleen Gray #gif #gifs #cheesecake #gifset #film #movie #1947 #1940s #vintage

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atomic-chronoscaph · 1 year

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Coleen Gray - Nightmare Alley (1947)

#coleen gray gif #nightmare alley gif #40s movies #film noir #edmund goulding #molly carlisle #noirvember #carnival sideshow #1940s #1947 #gif #chronoscaph gif

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charlottenewtons · 6 months

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Nightmare Alley (1947) dir. Edmund Goulding

#nightmare alley #nightmare alley 1947 #oldhollywoodedit #classicfilmedit #filmedit #noirvember #noirvember 2023 #my thing #userhollywood

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mourningmaybells · 6 months

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there was this movie rule back then that criminals always had to lose to discourage people from comitting crimes, but what those people failed to account for is that i would gladly lie in a pool of my own blood or lose whatever love I had left to give if barbara stanwyck or tyrone power let me hit it.

#ok not an accurate description of what happened in nightmare alley but you get it #nightmare alley 1947 #double indemnity #noir

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ritahayworrth · 1 year

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TYRONE POWER in Nightmare Alley (1947) dir. Edmund Goulding

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somejuansomewhere · 3 months

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#nightmare alley #1947

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