Nightmare Alley
Starring: Tyrone Power, Coleen Gray, Joan Blondell
Director: Edmund Goulding
Writer: Jules Furthman
Producer: George Jessel
Nightmare Alley is a 1947 American film noir directed by Edmund Goulding from a screenplay by Jules Furthman. Based on William Lindsay Gresham's 1946 novel of the same name, it stars Tyrone Power, with Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, and Helen Walker in supporting roles.
Trivia
- Based on Nightmare Alley (1946 novel by William Lindsay Gresham).
- Tyrone Power, wishing to expand beyond the romantic and swashbuckler roles that brought him to fame, requested 20th Century Fox's studio chief Darryl F. Zanuck to buy the rights to the novel so he could star in it.
- Fox paid $50,000 in September 1946 for the rights to Gresham's novel, and Gresham was hired as consultant to help screenwriter Jules Furthman, although the extent of his contribution to the script is not clear.
- In November 1946, it was reported that Mark Stevens and Anne Baxter were to star in the film, and that William Keighley would be the director.
Previous Showings
3 Runs • 2 Festivals
1,779 tickets sold
Original Billings: 1 run (February 5, 1948)
Original Run: February 5, 1948 (Thursday - Saturday)
All runs on record (3):
- February 5, 1948 (Thursday - Saturday)Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell
- February 7, 2003 · 582 ticketsFilmNoirw/ The Great Flamarion
- September 28 - 29, 2024 · 1,197 ticketsFilm Noir plus Val Lewtonw/ Sunset Boulevard