Ace In The Hole

[1951, Movie]

Ace In The Hole: Review

"I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons." This is writer-director Billy Wilder at his most brilliantly misanthropic. Kirk Douglas stars as an alcoholic reporter for a New Mexico newspaper who wrings a career-making exclusive out of a local tragedy: a man trapped in a mine cave-in. An uncompromising portrait of human nature at its worst, the film was far ahead of its time in its depiction of a media circus and the public's appetite for disaster. With Jan Sterling as the trapped man's hard-boiled wife, and the source of the above quote. Read the complete review for Ace In The Hole

Ace In The Hole: Cast & Details

Year: 1951
Rated NR

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Cast
Kirk Douglas: Charles Tatum--Chuck
Jan Sterling: Lorraine Minosa
Robert Arthur: Herbie Cook
Porter Hall: Jacob Q. Boot
Frank Cady: Mr. Federber
Richard Benedict: Leo Minosa

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Ace In The Hole: TV Guide News

DVD Tuesday: Ace in the Hole and Tabloid Trash | Ask FlickChick | 7/16/2007
DVD Tuesday: Ace in the Hole lays into the public appetite for sensation and the tabloid media machine that feeds it — 55 years later, nothing has changed.Send your movie questions to FlickChick.See Maitland McDonagh and Ken Fox review this week's new flicks on the Movie Talk vodcast!Hear Maitland on the weekly podcast TV Guide Talk!As soon as I got my first VCR, I began waiting for Billy Wilder's lacerating Ace in the Hole (1951) to come out on video. Never happened. And why it's taken so long to come to DVD when you can choose from multiple editions of all manner of junk is one of life's little mysteries. But it's finally here, courtesy of the Criterion Collection, so goodbye combing listings for the rare TV showing or ponying up for someone else's made-from-TV bootleg! The anti-hero of Ace in the Hole, which was also released as The Big Carnival and tanked under both titles, is Charles Tatum (Kirk Douglas), a bastard of a disgraced big-city newspaperman looking for a way... read more
FlickChick | 1/6/2005
Question: I once started watching a movie about 30 minutes in; it dealt with a man stuck in a hole or a cave near a tall read more
FlickChick | 5/2/2002
Question: I once saw a movie with, I think, Kirk Douglas as a reporter who comes to a small town and stirs up a lot of t read more

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