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Director Edmund Goulding said of the film, “Darkness lurks behind the bright lights of a traveling carnival in one of the most haunting and perverse film noirs of the 1940s… [it features] Tyrone Power… [in] 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 down a path of moral degradation and self-destruction. Although its strange, sordid atmosphere shocked contemporary audiences, this long-difficult-to-see reflection of postwar angst has now taken its place as one of the defining noirs of its era—a fatalistic downward slide into existential oblivion.” And besides all that, it’s great fun to watch – particularly if you are interested in Tarot, mentalism or carnival freak shows, not to mention “existential oblivion.” Accompanying cocktail suggestion here.