Ace in the Hole (1951)
1951 · Feature film · 111 min · dir. Billy Wilder
Rough, tough Chuck Tatum, who battered his way to the top... trampling everything in his path - men, women and morals !
- Drama
- film noir
Synopsis
Ace in the Hole, also known as The Big Carnival, is a 1951 American satirical drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Billy Wilder. The film stars Kirk Douglas as a cynical, disgraced reporter who creates a media circus surrounding a man trapped in a cave in rural New Mexico to try to regain a job on a major newspaper. The film co-stars Jan Sterling and features Robert Arthur and Porter Hall.
Synopsis from Wikipedia
Details
- Director
- Billy Wilder
- Writer
- Billy Wilder
- Composer
- Hugo Friedhofer
- Cinematography
- Charles Lang
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
- Released
- 1951-06-29
- Running time
- 111 minutes
Cast & crew
Billy Wilder Director
Robert Arthur
Ralph Moody
Harry Harvey
Richard Gaines
Richard Benedict
Ray Teal
Porter Hall
Lester Dorr
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Wow Wow Wow 🤨 ! ! ! 🤐 · BornBohemian · 2022-10-10
Ever see a character you love, but hate to hate them, because you get it, you've done something like what they have done because your greatest success would come out of the good ending...Well! The longer the venture goes on and the more you feel in your heart, draw back, admit defeat, suffer loss, morality is at stake and becoming grave! This took me by surprise, and with the poor guys wife scheming along with Kirk, they both show a most vulgar, at all cost greed and avarice, at the cost of another's life! See This, you'll love Douglas's performance but hate him in the end... And how all the…
★★★★ · What Does it Profit a man to gain the World… · The Spanman · 2023-03-26
…And lose his own soul? -St. Paul. Douglas’s character ended up losing not his own soul, but another man’s life in the process. A decent movie and a very good acting job by Kirk Douglas.
