Tyrone Power News

Forgotten today, source novelist William Lindsay Gresham actually worked with the freaks among a carnival before writing Nightmare Alley .

CRASH DRIVE is a grand World War II film starring Tyrone Power, U.S.M.C.R. The film costars Dana Andrews and Anne Baxter, but this is the charismatic Power's movie all the way -- his last starring role before leaving Hollywood for real-life wartime service.

"I'm not in a war. I'm back carrying the mail." During the little over two years from the beginning of the Second World War to the attack on Pearl Harbor, there existed a marked isolationist sentiment in the United States, particularly among those on the extreme left.

Longfellow once called a man who could speak up against popular opinion 'a brave man' and 'a man of pluck and courage.' How much more courageous is the man who risks death to defend the right! We will all need courage in the coming days, as an out-of-control government edges closer to tyranny.

Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power used them to battle Basil Rathbone in "The Adventures of Robin Hood" and "The Mark of Zorro." Johnny Depp wielded one to battle Geoffrey Rush and a walking, talking man-squid in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series.

THIS WEEK: NIGHTMARE ALLEY - Con artists in a creepy traveling carny show fuel a terrific noir about greed, faith and a doomed anti-hero . Storytellers have long tapped into the tale of Oedipus Rex for inspiration.