Desperate to change his image from beyond the romantic and swashbuckler roles that made him famous, Tyrone Power convinced Twentieth Century Fox's studio chief, Darryl F. Zanuck to buy the rights to the novel, "Nightmare Alley" by William Lindsay Gresham. The film was released in 1947 with Power playing against type as Stan Carlisle, a deceptive carnival worker. And as Zanuck had feared, "Nightmare Alley" was a disappointment at the box-office due to audiences having difficulty accepting Power as a 'bad guy'. Yet this film, directed by Edmund Goulding, has later gone on to be appreciated as a true classic of film noir.
One fan of the film was Guillermo del Toro and the Oscar-winning director has made his version of this pitch-black drama with a dazzling all-star cast. An intriguing teaser trailer has just been released with Bradley Cooper taking on the role of Carlisle, leading us in to a dark world set in the 1940's involving a sleazy carnival filled with lowdown hustlers and scheming grifters. Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, David Strathairn, Ron Perlman and Toni Collette also star.
"Nightmare Alley" is due in US theaters on December 17, 2021
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