Edmund Goulding NIGHTMARE ALLEY DER SCHARLATAN Original poster from the #152036

Description

Nightmare Alley [Der Scharlatan] (Original poster from the 1954 German release of the 1947 film)
Author:
Edmund Goulding (director); William Lindsay Gresham (novel); Jules Furthman (screenwriter); Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray (starring)
Title:
Nightmare Alley [Der Scharlatan] (Original poster from the 1954 German release of the 1947 film)
Publication:
N.p. Winterdruck Heidelberg, Circa 1954
Description:
Vintage German A1 poster from the 1954 German release of the 1947 film noir.
Based on 1946 novel by William Lindsay Gesham, a dispassionate descent into the world of the carnival sideshows, based largely on the author's own experiences and investigations.
Tyrone Power plays against type as a devious swindler who works his way from a traveling carnival to high society, only to inevitably fall down again.
Filmed with a larger budget than most films in what would later be called the noir style, largely on account of Tyrone Power's fame at the time. It fared poorly on release but has since been reassessed as a top tier classic of the noir style.
Shot on location in Illinois.
23.25 x 33 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus, with pinholes, light edgewear, and some splitting at the folds.
Grant US. Selby US Canon. Selby US Masterworks. Silver and Ward US.
Seller ID:
152036
Subject:
1940s Cinema, Circus, Con Men, Grifters, and Hustlers, Film Noir, Film Posters, Films with Literary Sources, Hard-boiled Crime Fiction, Mystery and Crime
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