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In short order the two of them leave together (a clever reversal of running away to join the circus), and the plot catches up with them two years later, performing as psychics to well-heeled audiences in the big city. Willem Dafoe, Toni Collette, David Strathairn, Ron Perlman and others make appearances in this chapter, but it’s Rooney Mara as Molly Cahill, the human electrical conductor, who really connects with Stanton. The massive, awards-laden cast is headed up by Bradley Cooper as Stanton Carlisle, a man with a mysterious past who gets a job at a travelling carnival, slowly ingratiating himself with its rogues’ gallery of performers.
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I imagine del Toro had a ball with his version, which is stuffed full of intricate mid-century production design, backed with copious amounts of rain, snow, fire, lightning, fog and smoke. The source material is William Lindsay Gresham’s pulpy 1946 novel, adapted once before in 1947 with Tyrone Power. But it’s the one whose length bothered me least.
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Long and twisty and occasionally baffling, it’s just one of the many new releases to push its running time to two and a half hours or more see Spider-Man, West Side Story, Don’t Look Up, House of Gucci, etc. Nightmare Alley feels like a tale told by a roaring fire on a cold winter’s night. Rooney Mara and Bradley Cooper in Nightmare Alley.