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TitleNightmare Alley (1947)
Alternative/Original Title
DisabilityGeneral
CountryUSA
Length111
GenreCarnival drama
Rating?
DirectorEdmund Goulding
CastTyrone Power Joan Blondell Coleen Gray
NotesB/W Set in a carnival which has an odd assortment of acts which include biting the heads off live chickens, mind reading and spiritualism. There are oblique references to the finger licking chicken biter being mentally ill and the strongman having learning difficulties.

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