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 !
Ace In The Hole (2-DVD)
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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

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 6,163
A lurid pulp indictment of exploitation, opportunism, doctored intelligence, torture for profit, insatiable greed, and shady journalism. Full Review
Village Voice
Jan 9, 2007
Rating: 2/5 -- Ace in the Hole is badly weakened by a poorly constructed plot, which depends for its strength upon assumptions that are not only naive but absurd. Full Review
New York Times
Sep 9, 2002
A harsh, violent but vastly engrossing melodrama. Full Review
Maclean's Magazine
Oct 30, 2019
Ace in the Hole is as vicious and irreverent as classic Hollywood ever got, bowing to nobody in its righteous cynicism. Full Review
The Ringer
Apr 15, 2019
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. Full Review
Film Freak Central
Jul 27, 2014
Ace in the Hole is a revelation, as timely now as when it was made. Full Review
San Francisco Chronicle
Aug 29, 2014
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. Full Review
AMC Filmsite
Sep 27, 2019

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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