ACE IN THE HOLE (CRITERION COLLECTION) [BLU-RAY + DVD]

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• Release Year: 1951
• Genre: Drama, Film-Noir
• Plot: 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.
• Cast: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall, Frank Cady, Richard Benedict, Ray Teal, Lewis Martin, John Berkes, Frances Dominguez, Gene Evans, Frank Jaquet, Harry Harvey, Bob Bumpas, Geraldine Hall, Richard Gaines, Oscar Belinda, Martin Bendleton, Timothy Carey, Basil Chester, Ken Christy, Stewart Kirk Clawson, Iron Eyes Cody, Francisco Day, Lester Dorr, Claire Du Brey, Edith Evanson, William Fawcett, John Stuart Fulton, Charles Griffin, Larry Hogan, Frank Keith, Bob Kortman, Martha Maryman, Stanley McKay, Joe J. Merrill, Paul D. Merrill, Bert Moorhouse, Frank Andrew Parker, Martin Pendleton, William N. Peters, Roy Regnier, Jack Roberts, Bill Sheehan, Bert Stevens, John 'Bub' Sweeney, Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels
• Director: Billy Wilder
• Runtime: 1:51
• Company: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie