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Nightmare Alley is a 1947 American film noir directed by Edmund Goulding from a screenplay by Jules Furthman. [2] 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.
Title Director Cast Genre Notes 13 Rue Madeleine: Henry Hathaway: James Cagney, Richard Conte, Annabella: Thriller: 20th Century Fox: Adventure Island: Sam Newfield: Rhonda Fleming, Rory Calhoun, Paul Kelly
Nightmare Alley may refer to: Nightmare Alley, a 1946 novel by William Lindsay Gresham; Nightmare Alley, a film noir, based on the novel; Nightmare ...
"A Literary Nightmare" is a short story written by Mark Twain in 1876. The story is about Twain's encounter with an earworm , or virus-like jingle , and how it occupies his mind for several days until he manages to "infect" another person, thus removing the jingle from his mind.
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Nightmare Alley is a novel by American writer William Lindsay Gresham, published in 1946. It is a study of the depths of show business and its immoral inhabitants—the dark, shadowy world of a second-rate carnival filled with hustlers, scheming grifters , and Machiavellian femmes fatales .
Nightmare Alley is a 2021 neo-noir psychological thriller film co-written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, and based on the 1946 novel of the same name by William Lindsay Gresham. It is the second feature film adaptation of Gresham's novel, following the 1947 film .
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [1] known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist.He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," [2] with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature."