Nightmare Alley is a 1947 American film noir directed by Edmund Goulding. Starring Tyrone Power, with Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, and Helen Walker.
Stan (Tyrone Power) joins a seedy carnival as the assistant to Mademoiselle Zeena (Joan Blondell). She and her alcoholic husband had a great, convincing system at "telling fortunes" until some misfortune caused them to come to the seedy carnival and work. Zeena hasn't told anyone their ingenious code.
Stan - even flirtatiously - seduces Zeena to get her to work together using the secret code while his " by mistake " involvement in an event related with alcohol leads to the death of her husband ..Eventually he manages to convince the young Molly (Coleen Gray) - who he had actually fallen in love with - to help him learn the code and work together in popular theaters in big cities...
His plan is noticed by Zeena and Molly's boyfriend and they forcefully led the couple ( Stan and Molly ) into marriage and of course out of the circus...
Stan eventually gets his way and learns the code, but later gets greedy and after living the high life with his innocent wife Molly (Coleen Gray) for a while. It all comes crashing down on him through his association with a mysterious and manipulative psychologist called Lilith Ritter (Helen Walker).
Narcissism and excessive desire for wealth and fame make a man look like a fraud in his own eyes and also in the eyes of his wife.
An endless battle of the mind and soul with spiritualistic and supernatural tricks will lead the protagonist to crash and madness and of course his beloved wife to despair...
But in the end what will prevail? Despair or love?
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