Paramount Pictures released Ace in the Hole to theaters on July 4, 1951. Billy Wilder directed the film starring Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, and Robert Arthur.
‘Ace in the Hole’ Criterion Summary
Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole is one of the most scathing indictments of American culture ever produced by a Hollywood filmmaker. Kirk Douglas gives the fiercest performance of his career as Chuck Tatum, an amoral newspaper reporter who washes up in dead-end Albuquerque, happens upon the scoop of a lifetime, and will do anything to keep getting the lurid headlines. Wilder’s follow-up to Sunset Boulevard is an even darker vision, a no-holds-barred exposé of the American media’s appetite for sensation that has gotten only more relevant with time.
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Paramount Pictures released Ace in the Hole to theaters on July 4, 1951. Billy Wilder directed the film starring Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, and Robert Arthur.