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Ace in the Hole is a 1951 black-and-white film starring Kirk Douglas and directed by Billy Wilder. Paramount Pictures release. Image File history File links Ace. ...
Billy Wilder Billy Wilder (June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was a screenwriter, film director and producer whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. ...
Billy Wilder Billy Wilder (June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was a screenwriter, film director and producer whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. ...
Kirk Douglas in Champion Kirk Douglas (born December 9, 1916) is an American actor and film producer known for his oft-imitated and -parodied gravel-ridden voice and his recurring roles as the kinds of characters Douglas himself once described as sons of bitches. He is also father to Hollywood...
One of Hollywoods most talented and versatile stars, often cool and stunning blonde in Hollywood film noir movies of the 1940s and 50s, the actrees Jan Sterling ensured audiences of a real good time with her sexy roles in soaps, crime action and comedies. ...
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Hugo Wilhelm Friedhofer (May 3, 1901 - May 17, 1981) was a film music composer born in San Francisco. ...
Charles Lang (March 22, 1902 – April 3, 1998) was a noted film cinematographer. ...
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Kirk Douglas in Champion Kirk Douglas (born December 9, 1916) is an American actor and film producer known for his oft-imitated and -parodied gravel-ridden voice and his recurring roles as the kinds of characters Douglas himself once described as sons of bitches. He is also father to Hollywood...
Billy Wilder Billy Wilder (June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was a screenwriter, film director and producer whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. ...
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Wilder examines the seedy relationship between the media and the news it reports in this film noir. Originally released theatrically as Ace in the Hole; The Big Carnival is the title used for the films re-release and most early television airings. The "carnival" in the title refers to the media circus surrounding the events in the movie. There is also an actual carnival setup near the mine for onlookers who have come to watch the rescue attempt. This still from The Big Combo (1955) demonstrates the visual style of film noir at its most extreme. ...
Plot: Kirk Douglas portrays Charles 'Chuck' Tatum the cynical, down-on-his-luck reporter for a small New Mexico paper. While on assignment covering a rattlesnake hunt Tatum finds out about a man, played by Richard Benedict, has become trapped due to a mine collapse. Tatum sees his chance to make it big again, and manages to delay the rescue in order to benefit from the fame his exclusive reporting is bringing. The man in the hole's wife Jan Sterling also has eyes for Tatum. One of Hollywoods most talented and versatile stars, often cool and stunning blonde in Hollywood film noir movies of the 1940s and 50s, the actrees Jan Sterling ensured audiences of a real good time with her sexy roles in soaps, crime action and comedies. ...
This film has been imitated on The Simpsons when Bart Simpson drops a sound device down a well and pretends to be Timmy O'Toole. The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening. ...
Bartholomew Jo-Jo Simpson, better known as Bart, is a fictional character featured in the animated television series The Simpsons. ...
Critical reaction
Reviews of the film today are mixed but mostly favorable. J. Hoberman of the Village Voice stated that the film isn't the greatest movie effort: "Ace in the Hole is by no means a great—or even a particularly good—movie, but its sustained nastiness shows a stunning disregard for box-office niceties" while Slant Magazine's Ed Gonzalez says of the film "Not unlike Fritz Lang's equally misanthropic Scarlet Street, Ace in the Hole plays the squashing of one man's human spirit for societal-weary gravitas." Fritz Lang Friedrich Anton Christian Lang (December 5, 1890 - August 2, 1976) was an Austrian film director, screenwriter and occasional film producer, one of the best known emigrés from Germanys school of expressionism. ...
Scarlet Street is an American film noir from 1945. ...
Awards and nominations The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Story and Screenplay. Academy Awards The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the United States and most watched awards ceremony in the world. ...
Real-life events Ace in the Hole is loosely based on events surrounding the 1925 entrapment and death of W. Floyd Collins in Sand Cave, Kentucky. A Louisville newspaper, the Courier-Journal, jumped on the story of the imperiled Collins by dispatching a reporter named William Burke "Skeets" Miller to the scene. Miller's enterprising coverage turned the tragic episode into a national event and earned Miller a Pulitzer Prize. Call Northside 777 is another film noir based on a series of Pulitzer Prize winning stories - though the press is portrayed in a more positive light. Floyd Collins William Floyd Collins (July 20, 1887 - c. ...
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The gold medal awarded for Public Service in Journalism The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions. ...
Call Northside 777 is a 1948 documentary-style drama based on a true story, in which a reporter tries to prove that a man in prison for murder has been wrongly convicted. ...
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Cast Kirk Douglas in Champion Kirk Douglas (born December 9, 1916) is an American actor and film producer known for his oft-imitated and -parodied gravel-ridden voice and his recurring roles as the kinds of characters Douglas himself once described as sons of bitches. He is also father to Hollywood...
One of Hollywoods most talented and versatile stars, often cool and stunning blonde in Hollywood film noir movies of the 1940s and 50s, the actrees Jan Sterling ensured audiences of a real good time with her sexy roles in soaps, crime action and comedies. ...
The factual accuracy of this article is disputed. ...
Porter Hall (September 19, 1888 - October 6, 1953) was a film actor known for appearing in a number of films in the 1930s and 1940s many times, due to a weak chin and shifty eyes, playing movie villians. ...
Frank Cady, born September 8, 1915, in Susanville, California, is an American actor best known for his role as storekeeper Sam Drucker in the Green Acres and Petticoat Junction television series, which both ran at the same time in the 1960s. ...
Richard Pepe Benedict (January 8, 1920 - April 25, 1984) was an Italian-born television and film actor and director. ...
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