Ace in the Hole (1951)
(The Big Carnival)
Country: US
Technical: bw 111m
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Porter Hall
Synopsis:
A newspaper man, embittered by being stuck out on a New Mexico paper when he used to be going places, cynically exploits a cave-in at a local Indian site to further his career.
Review:
Wilder's meticulousness and symmetry, which he applied to comedy to such unique and at times long-winded effect, is here at the service of the bitterest of comments on our mediatized age. It's a film with heaps to say about the next half century or so, when politicians would manipulate stories to their advantage, and others allow themselves to be used. And it was made by a major studio (Paramount).
(The Big Carnival)
Country: US
Technical: bw 111m
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Porter Hall
Synopsis:
A newspaper man, embittered by being stuck out on a New Mexico paper when he used to be going places, cynically exploits a cave-in at a local Indian site to further his career.
Review:
Wilder's meticulousness and symmetry, which he applied to comedy to such unique and at times long-winded effect, is here at the service of the bitterest of comments on our mediatized age. It's a film with heaps to say about the next half century or so, when politicians would manipulate stories to their advantage, and others allow themselves to be used. And it was made by a major studio (Paramount).
(The Big Carnival)
Country: US
Technical: bw 111m
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Porter Hall
Synopsis:
A newspaper man, embittered by being stuck out on a New Mexico paper when he used to be going places, cynically exploits a cave-in at a local Indian site to further his career.
Review:
Wilder's meticulousness and symmetry, which he applied to comedy to such unique and at times long-winded effect, is here at the service of the bitterest of comments on our mediatized age. It's a film with heaps to say about the next half century or so, when politicians would manipulate stories to their advantage, and others allow themselves to be used. And it was made by a major studio (Paramount).