09 Oct 1947
Nightmare Alley
Roustabout Stanton Carlisle joins a traveling carny and unsuccessfully schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoholic husband, Pete.
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Magazine writer Ann Mason infiltrates the United Defenders, a public service organization which is actually a front for racketeers. But a case of amnesia threatens to blow her cover.
Top Billed Cast
Nancy Coleman Ann Dwire, alias Ann Mason
Michael O'Shea Steve Fuller
Sheldon Leonard Fred Stalk
Peter Whitney Joker
Emory Parnell True Dawson
Pierre Watkin Ralph Borden
Frank Reicher Pop, apartment concierge
Cay Forester Sally Donahue (as Cay Forester)
John Hamilton Dr. Chalmers
Richard Irving Protest Rally Orator
Carole Donne Beth Taffel, Borden's secretary
Jimmy Clark Joe Donahue
William Gould Mr. X
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