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On-Air Film Review: Carney Brad! Review of ‘Nightmare Alley’
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CHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on December 16th, 2021, reviewing the film noir remake of “Nightmare Alley,’ directed by Guillermo del Toro, in theaters on December 17th, 2021.
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This is his remake of a 1947 film noir that starred Tyrone Power in the original. Here Bradley Cooper is Stan, a drifter who ends up at a 1930s carnival, where he learns to be a “mind reader” from Peter (David Strathaim) and Zeena (Toni Collette). He falls in love with Molly (Rooney Mara) and they run away to start a popular nightclub act in Chicago called The Great Stanton. One audience member is Lilith (Cate Blanchett), who is a therapist of Chicago’s elite. She recruits The Great Staton to scam the rich, feeding him their secrets in exchange for blackmail cash.
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