Ace In The Hole (2-DVD)
Rough, tough Chuck Tatum, who battered his way to the top ... trampling everything in his path - men, women and morals !
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 51 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 2, 2018
- Originally Released: 1951
- Label: Criterion
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur & Porter Hall | |
Performer: | Frank Cady, Ray Teal, Lewis Martin, Richard Benedict & Richard Gaines | |
Directed by | Billy Wilder | |
Edited by | Arthur P. Schmidt | |
Screenwriting by | Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels & Walter Newman | |
Composition by | Hugo Friedhofer | |
Art Direction by | Earl Hedrick & Hal Pereira | |
Produced by | Billy Wilder | |
Director of Photography: | Charles Lang |
Entertainment Reviews:
As a diatribe against all that is worst in human nature, it has moments dipped in pure vitriol.
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Time Out
4 stars out of 4 -- Decades ahead of its time in the fashion of NETWORK and A FACE IN THE CROWD...
USA Today
Rating: A+ --
Ace in the Hole (1951) is director/co-writer Billy Wilder's uncompromising, dark and harsh noirish commentary about human nature, and the unscrupulous and self-serving actions of compromised tabloid-media journalists.
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AMC Filmsite
A harsh, violent but vastly engrossing melodrama.
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Maclean's Magazine
Ace in the Hole is as vicious and irreverent as classic Hollywood ever got, bowing to nobody in its righteous cynicism.
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The Ringer
Rating: 4/4 --
It's the most scabrous, uncompromised work from Billy Wilder, who never made a movie that wasn't kind of an asshole.
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Film Freak Central
This 1951 film, about a cynical reporter who seizes on the plight of a man trapped in a mine shaft to promote his career, is cold, lurid, and fascinating, propelled by the same combination of moral outrage and sneaky admiration.
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Chicago Reader
Product Description:
Billy Wilder, even before the deeply cynical ACE IN THE HOLE, was well-known as one of American film's best satirists. He earned his reputation with SUNSET BOULEVARD and THE APARTMENT, but in ACE IN THE HOLE, one of his personal favorites of his many films, he failed at the box office. The film, although one of the most trenchant, insightful looks at the American newspaper business, became one of the director's least known works. Kirk Douglas stars as Charles Tatum, a hard-drinking dishonest newsman who's been fired from several big-city papers and winds up, much to his chagrin, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. When he stumbles upon a small story, he decides to manipulate it into a big national media event. After Leo Minosa (Richard Benedict), the owner of a curio shop, is trapped underground digging at an Indian cliff dwelling, Tatum arranges with a corrupt sheriff and a greedy contractor to intentionally delay the rescue for days while he builds the story--and his exclusive rights to it--into a frenzy of activity. He is aided by Lorraine Minosa (Jan Sterling), the bitter wife of the trapped man. All this was, at the time, too much for both critics and audiences, but Wilder's direction, a taut, biting script, and a great performance by Douglas make this an undeservedly overlooked part of Billy Wilder's career.
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- UPC: 715515024723
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