DOUBLE FEATURED (2 movies for the price of one!) WITH ROBERT SIODMAK'S 1946 GOTHIC CHILLER THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE!

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.

"A hidden gem in the film noir genre..." - Brian Susbielles, InSession Film

"The material... is unusual and the cast first-rate." - Pauline Kael, The New Yorker

"A sordid, spellbinding piece of screen fare suitable only for adults of the sturdy type. It is a gripping melodrama well produced, expertly directed and acted." - Ida Belle Hicks, Fort Worth Star-Telegram