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Nightmare Alley (1947): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

7.7IMDb
87%Tomatometer
75Metacritic
7.2TMDB

Nightmare Alley is a 1947 drama, thriller film directed by Edmund Goulding. It scores 7.7 on IMDb, 87% on Rotten Tomatoes, 75 on Metacritic, 7.2 on TMDB. Audiences and critics largely agree: IMDb users and Metacritic critics are within 2 points of each other once scaled to 100. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 7 of 87 films from 1947 in our catalog and number 117 of 1,701 thriller films.

Billed cast: Tyrone Power, Helen Walker, Coleen Gray, Joan Blondell, Taylor Holmes, Mike Mazurki.

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