Beautifully shaped and sharply detailed chronicle of the rise and fall of a conscienceless carny (played with unaccustomed toughness by Tyrone Power): up to the heights of high-society spiritualist and down to the depths of sideshow geek. Beautifully photographed and sharply written, too: Lee Garmes and Jules Furthman, respectively. Somewhat undervalued, overall, because its suave director, Edmund Goulding, has little history of this sort of thing: mainly women's pictures and a few middlebrow literary adaptations. With Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker, Taylor Holmes, and Mike Mazurki. (1945) — Duncan Shepherd
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