Nightmare Alley (1947)

Dir. Edmund Goulding. Starring Tyrone Power, Coleen Gray, Joan Blondell Everyone has a few quotes that rattle around in their brains in perpetuity for no good reason at all. Here’s one of mine: Gillis: They’re pretty hot for it over at Twentieth, but I think Zanuck’s all wet. Can you see Ty Power as a… Read More Nightmare Alley (1947)

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The Long Gray Line (1955)

Dir. John Ford. Starring Tyrone Power, Maureen O’Hara, Betsy Palmer Some soldiers, just through luck or probability or God’s will, are doomed to be the ones to watch others die. Marty Maher (Power), though he enlists annually for decades on end and is in the service for both world wars, never actually goes to battle.… Read More The Long Gray Line (1955)

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Nightmare Alley (1947)

The Long Gray Line (1955)