Nightmare Alley is a movie directed by Edmund Goulding in 1947 and based on the book of the same name by William Lindsay Gresham, first published in 1946. The movie features Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker, Taylor Holmes, Mike Mazurki, and others.
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Storyline
In the gritty, surrealistic world of traveling carnivals, where eccentric people of all possible varieties interact on a daily basis, Tyrone Power plays a morally questionable circus apprentice determined to climb the carnival ladder no matter what the price.
Genres
Movie vs Book
Year
1947
Minutes
110
Movie Rate
7.80
Source: IMDb
Year
1946
Pages
275
Book Rate
8.08
S: Goodreads
Book
Nightmare Alley
Author: William Lindsay Gresham
Country: USA
First published in: 1946
Length: 275 pages
Genre: Fiction
Other screen adaptations of the book
Movie by Guillermo del Toro
User polls & recommendations
“If you sell your book to be a film, then 80 percent of your book is going to be thrown out.”
DENNIS LEHANE (Writer)
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