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4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In a time of titanic sandstorms, vile plagues, drought and pestilence the final conflict between good and evil is about to begin. The battle will take place in the Heartland of an empire called America. A sweeping epic that focuses on the primordial conflict of good vs. evil, as played out against a pair of vivid and unusual backdrops: a traveling carnival working the American Dustbowl circuit, and an evangelical ministry in California.
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Criterion collection volume 1078
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1 videodisc (111 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages : color illustration ; 72 x 19 cm, folded to 19 x 12).
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English
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"Darkness lurks behind the bright lights of a traveling carnival in one of the most haunting and perverse film noirs of the 1940s. Adapted from the scandalous best seller by William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley gave Tyrone Power a chance to subvert his matinee-idol image with a ruthless performance as Stanton Carlisle, a small-time carny whose unctuous charm propels him to fame as a charlatan spiritualist, but whose unchecked ambition leads him...
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The carnival has returned to Pico Mundo, the same one that came to town when Odd was just sixteen. Odd is drawn to an arcade tent where he discovers Gypsy Mummy, the fortune-telling machine that told him that he and Stormy Llewellyn were destined to be together forever. Pico Mundo is under threat once more. History seems to be repeating itself as Odd grapples with a Satanic cult intent on bringing destruction to his town. An unseasonal storm is brewing,...
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