Ken Christy

Ace in the Hole -- When a man is trapped alive in a mine collapse, a self-interested reporter and the townspeople cynically create what we now call a 'media circus'.

When young Christy Mathewson Cooper secures a job as a batboy with a team called the Bisons, he amazes players and management by delivering tips on how to win games. The big secret is that Christy is merely the mouthpiece for his father, former big-league ballplayer Larry Cooper, whose run of bad luck has forced him to hawk peanuts at the ballpark. Impressed by Christy's apparent expertise, the Bisons' owner, always on the lookout for a new publicity gimmick, promptly appoints the pint-sized Christy as manager of the team.

When a marriage broker successfully fixes a model up with a lonely X-ray technician, the model is so happy she decides to help the broker find a love of her own. While the meddling, cynical broker resists at first, she ultimately realizes that she is driven in her occupation to make up for the emptiness in her own lovelorn life.

A cave collapse in New Mexico traps a man, and all eyes turn toward the tragedy... including those of Charles "Chuck" Tatum (Kirk Douglas), a washed-up newspaper reporter who sees the incident as a ticket back to his former days at the top of the journalism heap. As the media circus begins to swirl around the trapped man's plight, Tatum takes command of the situation, embellishing the unfolding drama and prolonging the rescue effort … while feeding stories to the nation's reporters clamoring to cover the event. He's become the self-anointed mastermind behind what soon becomes a national media sensation - and he's desperately determined to milk it for all it is work. Celebrated director Billy Wilder (Sunset Boulevard, Stalag 17, The Apartment) mixes gritty cynicism with a superb cast - Douglas, Jan Sterling (The High and the Mighty), Robert Arthur (Just For You), Frank Cady (The Bad Seed) - in this powerful, fascinating study of the dark side of the human soul.

Twelve years after he abandoned his son, Jeff, outlaw Nate Blaine (Dane Clark) returns to seek a reconciliation, but the boy's aunt, Ruth (Ellen Drew), fears that Jeff will turn to a life of crime like his father and so frames Nate for a bank robbery and murder. Nate escapes, and 10 years later, Jeff (Ben Cooper) learns the truth about his aunt's well-intentioned duplicity. Embittered, Jeff plans a stagecoach robbery. Will Nate stop him?

In this retelling of the werewolf tale, family man Ritch is turned into a monster after taking an experimental serum against fall-out radiation. He turns into a werewolf and leaves a trail of blood and terror. This picture was the starting point of the resurgence of gothic horror on the silver screen.

In this retelling of the werewolf tale, family man Ritch is turned into a monster after taking an experimental serum against fall-out radiation. He turns into a werewolf and leaves a trail of blood and terror. This picture was the starting point of the resurgence of gothic horror on the silver screen.

Romantic musical comedy about two girls from Ohio trying to make it in Manhattan.

Romantic musical comedy about two girls from Ohio trying to make it in Manhattan.

Sisters who live in a Greenwich Village basement apartment, find themselves mixed up with A magazine publisher who gives Ruth her big chance as a writer.

The pint-sized son of a down-on-his-luck big-league baseball player is unexpectedly appointed manager of a struggling baseball team.

The pint-sized son of a down-on-his-luck big-league baseball player is unexpectedly appointed manager of a struggling baseball team.