Seen for the first time in February 2013.
"Nightmare Alley" is a very good film noir about a scummy, ambitious fellow, unscrupulous by even carney standards. It moves at a brisk pace and never fails to entertain while wallowing in the unseemliness of its protagonist. Takes on a spiritual angle at some point out of nowhere before becoming a kid icarus cautionary tale. Grade A-.
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