October 28, 1947 –
An overlooked yet still powerful film-noir (recently remade), Nightmare Alley, was directed by Edmund Goulding, and starring Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, and Helen Walker went into general release on this date.
The film did not initially do well, as the public found it difficult to accept Tyrone Powell as the bad guy. Studio head Darryl F. Zanuck found this movie so generally distasteful that he eventually took it out of circulation, but it was theatrically re-released in 1956-1957, did good business, particularly in the drive-in circuit, and received wide distribution.
