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Nightmare Alley

film by Goulding [1947]

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discussed in biography

In Edmund Goulding: The 1940s
Nightmare Alley (1947) was a radical departure for Goulding. The film noir featured Power as a carnival con man whose scheming leads to a horrendous end. Everybody Does It (1949) was based on a comic story by James M. Cain; Paul Douglas, Linda Darnell, and…
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role of Power

In Tyrone Power
…as The Razor’s Edge (1946), Nightmare Alley (1947), Prince of Foxes (1949), The Black Rose (1950), The Eddie Duchin Story (1956), and Witness for the Prosecution (1957). He died while filming Solomon and Sheba on location in Spain.
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