Jan Sterling, Kirk Douglas, Lewis Martin
An opportunist reporter has been exiled to a small New Mexico daily after being kicked off a top eastern paper for dishonesty, drinking and general insubordination. One day he accidentally stumbles on...( read more
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DVD Release Date: July 17, 2007
Stats: 380 reviews
A stark, unflinching portrayal of rouge journalism and how one man's ambition can overtake and smother ethics and decency. A box office flop when it was released in 1951, this may well be Kirk Douglas at his absolute best.
Director/Writer/Producer Billy Wilder sends hi...( read more)
I really love watching a movie where a normally likable actor plays a quintessential asshole. Douglas really digs his fangs in here as a smarmy reporter stuck in a hick town. The scene where he starts going off before being sent off by his editor to cover a story was great. The s...( read more)
Classic tale of cynicism and manipulation featuring reporter Kirk Douglas deliberately hampering the rescue of a trapped mine worker for his own ends. A superb performance and a very clever and insightful script.
A Criterion Collection Film, and its one of the Best Kirk Douglas plays a excellent part and though filmed in 1951, it shows how people are today. Out for one thing the big Green dollar. Worth the rent or the piurchasee, Excellent in one word.
excellent! another Billy Wilder great piece of film-making, makes you go "ah... they don't make films like that anymore". Kirk Douglas is EXCELLENT as the opportunist reporter Chuck Tatum. I prefer him when he's playing the villain, I think his "heroic" persona is less convincing...( read more)
Powerful film, extremely well acted, especially by Kirk Douglas and Jan Sterling. The story is exaggerated a bit too much to make it's point, but the film is way ahead of it's time and things certainly haven't changed. Quite a remarkable story, expertly handled by Billy Wilder.
A selfcriticism of journalism and media, combined with a portrait of an opportunistic journalist.
"Bad news sells best. Cause good news is no news"
Filmed at the same time as Sunset Boulevard, director Billy Wilder's "Ace In The Hole or "The Big Carnival" is a dark film noir starring a young Kirk Douglas, who only ten years later would ...( read more)
Kirk Douglas.
You watch this movie to see how this guy wheels and deals, gets his story, then plop. An ingenious film. If ever anybody wanted to know where his son got his Wall Street-evil from, check this out.
Mikey got it from daddy dearest.
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