[Susan Foreman]

'Nightmare Alley' (1947) - Dual Format release pre-order available from Patriot Films direct - £17.99

Release date: January 17

"One of the darkest and most startling films ever to come out of golden - era Hollywood, based on a novel that many thought unfilmable at a time when the Production Code held sway, NIGHTMARE ALLEY is set in the gritty yet surreal world of a travelling carnival, whose eccentric inhabitants serve up bizarre illusions to a grateful and gullible public.

Tyrone Power’s ruthless schemer, Stanton Carlisle, was his favorite of all his roles, and no wonder: it stretched him like nothing before or since as Carlisle rises from raffish carnival barker to national mind-reading sensation in partnership with his beautiful wife Molly (Coleen Gray), before an equally precipitous fall at the hands of a duplicitous psychologist (Helen Walker) and his own all too human frailties. Director Edmund Goulding (DARK VICTORY) conjures a spellbinding atmosphere out of some of the weirdest material ever to be tackled by a major studio."

Special Features:

• High-Definition Transfer
• UK Blu-ray premiere
• Audio Commentary with writer and Anthologist Johnny Mains and Film Expert Michael Brooke
• Audio commentary from 2005 featuring film historians James Ursini and Alain Silver
• Trailer
• Original Mono Audio
• Still Gallery
• Optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature