10K views · 749 reactions | NIGHTMARE ALLEY ('47) was Tyrone Power's favorite film. According to his son, “The studio didn’t want him to do it. Of course, he had to promise, ‘I’ll do five more romantic comedies or whatever if you let me do this one picture.’” See NIGHTMARE ALLEY ('47) at 12:15am as part of the #SummerUnderTheStars salute to Tyrone Power. | Noir Alley | Facebook

NIGHTMARE ALLEY (1947) Roustabout Stanton Carlisle (Tyrone Power) joins a traveling carny and unsuccessfully schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena (Joan Blondell) and her alcoholic husband, Pete (Ian Keith). But when Pete dies, Zeena is forced to take on Stanton as a partner, and he quickly proves more gifted than his predecessor. Ambitious to a fault, Carlisle abandons Zeena and the carny to reinvent himself as The Great Stanton, wowing high-class audiences in a Chica