Nightmare Alley - Film Noir And The American Dream

by Mark Osteen

Shockproof. Dir. Douglas Sirk. Columbia, 1949.

  Somewhere in the Night. Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz. 20th Century–Fox, 1946.

  Spellbound. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. Perf. Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck. Selznick, 1945.

  The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry. Dir. Robert Siodmak. Prod. Joan Harrison. Universal, 1945.

  Strange Illusion. Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer. PRC, 1945.

  The Strange Love of Martha Ivers. Dir. Lewis Milestone. Scr. Robert Rossen.* Paramount, 1946.

  Street of Chance. Dir. Jack Hively. Paramount, 1942.

  The Strip. Dir. Leslie Kardos. Perf. Mickey Rooney. MGM, 1951.

  Sweet Smell of Success. Dir. Alexander Mackendrick. Perf. Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, and Martin Milner. United Artists, 1957.

  They Live by Night. Dir. Nicholas Ray. Perf. Cathy O’Donnell, Farley Granger, and Howard Da Silva.* RKO, 1948.

  Thieves’ Highway. Dir. Jules Dassin.* Scr. A. I. Bezzerides. 20th Century–Fox, 1949.

  Touch of Evil. Dir. Orson Welles. Universal-International, 1958.

  Try and Get Me! Dir. Cyril Endfield.* Scr. Jo Pagano. Robert Stillman Productions/United Artists, 1950.

  The Two Mrs. Carrolls. Dir. Peter Godfrey. Warner Bros., 1947.

  The Underworld Story. Dir. Cyril Endfield.* Perf. Dan Duryea. Scr. Craig Rice, Cyril Endfield and Henry Blankfort.* Filmcraft/United Artists, 1950.

  Vicki. Dir. Harry Horner. Perf. Jean Peters, Jeanne Crain, Elliott Reid, and Richard Boone. 20th Century–Fox, 1953.

  Walk a Crooked Mile. Dir. Gordon Douglas. Columbia, 1948.

  White Heat. Dir. Raoul Walsh. Perf. James Cagney and Edmond O’Brien. Warner Bros., 1949.

  The Woman in the Window. Dir. Fritz Lang. Perf. Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, and Dan Duryea. International Pictures, 1944.

  You Only Live Once. Dir. Fritz Lang. Perf. Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney. United Artists, 1937.

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