Nightmare Alley (1946)
8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished 1 Jan 1946

Stan Carlisle learns to read an audience in a carnival and turns that talent towards increasingly lucrative fraud. Gresham makes advancement resemble escape while preserving the habits and appetites that threaten it. It is excellent on a persuasive speaker's ability to confuse controlling other…

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