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Ace in the Hole
Charles 'Chuck' Tatum is a washed up reporter determines to use the event of collapsed cave in Mexico which attracts attention of many people to become a great chance in his job. The film exposes the dark side of human soul to get success.
16 March 1885, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
31 January 1905, Springfield, Illinois, USA
8 January 1920, Palermo, Sicily, Italy
19 September 1888, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
3 April 1907, Gueydan, Louisiana, USA
23 July 1904, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
31 August 1892, Bonner's Ferry, Idaho, USA
11 July 1922, Holbrook, Arizona, USA
10 January 1901, Indian Territory, USA [now Oklahoma, USA]
19 July 1891, Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
January 30, 1916 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
13 June 1895, Trenton, New Jersey, USA
September 03, 2002
By no means a great -- or even a particularly good -- movie, but its sustained nastiness shows a stunning disregard for box-office niceties.
September 09, 2002
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.
August 28, 2009
A prophetic scald
July 27, 2014
It's the most scabrous, uncompromised work from Billy Wilder, who never made a movie that wasn't kind of an asshole.
September 08, 2014
Billy Wilder followed up Sunset Boulevard with this biting tale which cast a skeptical eye on the media and feels just as apropos in our age of 24-hour news.
January 09, 2007
A lurid pulp indictment of exploitation, opportunism, doctored intelligence, torture for profit, insatiable greed, and shady journalism.
July 10, 2014
Over 60 years later, Ace in the Hole has lost none of its sharpness. The only thing that's hard to believe about the movie is that Wilder and his co-screenwriters could have been this far ahead of the curve in their criticism of the media.
February 09, 2006
As a diatribe against all that is worst in human nature, it has moments dipped in pure vitriol.
September 09, 2002
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.
August 29, 2014
Ace in the Hole is a revelation, as timely now as when it was made.
October 01, 2015
"One hell of a whip-smart entertainment, sardonic and sad and always with the wisecracks."