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Ace in the Hole

ORIGINAL TITLE

Ace in the Hole (AKA The Big Carnival)

YEAR

1951

RUNNING TIME

111 min.

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COUNTRY

(New) Visual section

DIRECTOR

Billy Wilder

SCREENWRITER

Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels, Walter Newman

COMPOSER

Hugo Friedhofer

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Charles Lang Jr. (B&W)

CAST

Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall, Frank Cady, Richard Benedict, Ray Teal, Lewis Martin, John Berkes, Frances Dominguez, Gene Evans, Harry Harvey, Frank Jaquet

STUDIO/PRODUCER

Paramount Pictures

AWARDS

1951: Nominated for Oscar: Best Story and Screenplay

GENRE

Drama. Film-Noir | Journalism

SYNOPSIS/PLOT

A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to re-jump start his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus. Charles Tatum, a down-on-his-luck reporter, takes a job with a small New Mexico newspaper. The job is pretty boring until he finds a man trapped in a mine. He jumps at the chance to make a name for himself by taking over and prolonging the rescue effort, and feeding stories to major newspapers. He creates a national media sensation and milks it for all it is worth.

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