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The three sons of an old woman must return home by Christmas Eve in order to save her finances. Ashley, Matt and Will talk about 1947's Christmas Eve, in our penultimate 12 Days of Christmas episode. 

We wanted to talk about the great Guillermo del Toro and here's how to do it! We compare his dark remake to the classic 1947 Nightmare Alley. We had to scour the internet for the copy but we found it and watched it to talk about with you guys. Let us know what you think. 

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Seth Decker
Jesse Fresco
Hope Wyatt
 

Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell and Coleen Gray star in a riveting noir classic about a smooth talking man who gets his start in the circus, then moves on to his own popular act in Chicago. It all begins to crumble around him when he meets a shady psychologist. Will McKinley joins us to discuss 1947's Nightmare Alley.

Katharine Hepburn runs a reference library for a TV network, and Spencer Tracy is assigned to review the department. Will crusty Tracy and independent Hepburn fall for each other? Does the Earth orbit the sun? Ashley, Matt and Aaron discuss this 1957 romantic comedy that takes place partly at Christmastime.

In the ninth episode of Season 2, Noir Means Noir, Kyle is joined by screenwriter David Gutierrez and fellow cinephile Sarah Gray to discuss the elusive and unconventional noir about cynical con artistry and the ironic fall from grace in the world of carnies from melodramatist Edmund Goulding and starring a transformed Tyrone Power, Nightmare Alley.