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Ace in the Hole. A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to rekindle his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus.
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- Drama, Film-Noir
- Billy Wilder
- 1951-07-04
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After being fired from eleven major newspapers due to his behavior and temper, Charles "Chuck" Tatum winds up in Albuquerque and offers himself to the publisher of the small Sun-Bulletin. Skeptical of Tatum, editor and publisher Jacob Boot hires Tatum for $60. A year later, Tatum has grown bored with the slow pace of Albuquerque life. Boot sends Ta...
Development
The film's plot has similarities with two real-life events that ended in tragedy. The first involved W. Floyd Collins, who in 1925 was trapped inside Sand Cave, Kentucky, following a landslide. A Louisville newspaper, The Courier-Journal, jumped on the story by dispatching reporter William Burke Miller to the scene. Miller's enterprising coverage turned the tragic episode into a national event and earned the writer a Pulitzer Prize. Collins's name is cited in the film as an example of a cave-...
Writing
In the original script, Tatum colluded with the local sheriff. Joseph Breen of the Hays Codeoffice strongly objected to the on-screen depiction of a corrupt law enforcement officer, and insisted Wilder add dialogue making it clear the man eventually would be made to answer for his actions.
Filming
The final cost of the film was $1,821,052, of which $250,000 was paid to Wilder as writer, producer and director. Its exterior set, (WikiMiniAtlas35°23′49″N 109°01′09″W / 35.39694°N 109.01917°W / 35.39694; -109.01917), which was constructed 19 miles west of Gallup, was the largest non-combat set ever constructed at the time. It measured 235 feet (72 m) high, 1,200 feet (370 m) wide, and 1,600 feet (490 m) deep and included an ancient cliff dwelling, collapsed cave, roadside stands, parking...
Critical response
At the time of its release, critics found little to admire. In his review in The New York Times, Bosley Crowther called it "a masterly film" but added, "Mr. Wilder has let imagination so fully take command of his yarn that it presents not only a distortion of journalistic practice but something of a dramatic grotesque... [it] is badly weakened by a poorly constructed plot, which depends for its strength upon assumptions that are not only naïve but absurd. There isn't any denying that there ar...
Retrospective appraisals
The film has found new respect among critics. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote in 2007, "Although the film is 56 years old, I found while watching it again that it still has all its power. It hasn't aged because Wilder and his co-writers, Walter Newman and Lesser Samuels, were so lean and mean [with their dialogue]... [Kirk Douglas'] focus and energy... is almost scary. There is nothing dated about [his] performance. It's as right-now as a sharpened knife." Dave Kehr in the Chicago...
Wins 1. National Board of Review Award: Best Actress – Jan Sterling; 1951. 2. Venice Film Festival: International Award for Best Director – Billy Wilder; 1951. 3. Venice Film Festival: Best Music – Hugo Friedhofer; 1951. Nomination 1. Academy Award for Best Story and Screenplay– Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels and Walter Newman; 1952. 2. Venice Film F...
The 1992 The Simpsons episode "Radio Bart" largely references the storyline of Ace in the Hole, featuring Bart Simpson lowering a portable radio into a well, and using a wireless microphone to broadcast his voice from it. He convinces the public that a boy named "Timmy O'Toole" had fallen into it, prompting news coverage and charity campaigns. Writ...
Farber, Manny. 2009. Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber. Edited by Robert Polito. Library of America. ISBN 978-1-59853-050-6Sikov, Ed (1998). On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder. New York: Hyperion. ISBN 0-7868-6194-0.Ace in the Hole at the American Film Institute CatalogAce in the Hole at IMDbAce in the Hole at the TCM Movie DatabaseAce in the Hole at AllMovieAce in the Hole (pt O Grande Carnaval / br A Montanha dos Sete Abutres) é um filme americano de 1951, do gênero drama, realizado por Billy Wilder, com roteiro de Walter Newman, Lesser Samuels e Billy Wilder, trilha sonora de Hugo Friedhofer, e figurino de Edith Head.
23 de abr. de 2020 · Ace in the Hole, also known as The Big Carnival, is a 1951 American Film Noir directed by Billy Wilder and starring Kirk Douglas as a cynical, disgraced reporter who stops at nothing to try to regain a job on a major newspaper.
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5 de jul. de 2023 · Título original Ace in the Hole. Avaliar : Vou ver. Escrever minha crítica. Sinopse. Albuquerque, Novo México. O repórter veterano Charles Tatum (Kirk Douglas) foi despedido de 11 jornais, por...
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Direção de Billy Wilder. Com Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall.ASSISTA O FILME COMPLETO LEGENDADO NO LINK ABAIXO:https://archive.org/det...
Spearheaded by an excellent Kirk Douglas, Ace in the Hole is an incisive and sardonic satire that, much like its opportunistic hero, never lets moral compunction get in the way of a good...
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