Nightmare Alley is a 1947 film noir starring Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell, and directed by Edmund Goulding. The film was based on the 1946 novel of the same name, written by William Lindsay Gresham. The movie follows the rise and fall of a con man — a story that begins and ends at a seedy traveling carnival. Stanton “Stan” Carlisle (Tyrone Power) joins the carnival, working with “Mademoiselle Zeena” (Joan Blondell) and her alcoholic husband, Pete (Ian Keith).
