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Ace in the Hole, also known as The Big Carnival, is a 1951 American satirical drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Billy Wilder. The film stars Kirk Douglas as a cynical, disgraced reporter who creates a media circus surrounding a man trapped in a cave in rural New Mexico to try to regain a job on a major newspaper. The film co-stars Jan Sterling and features Robert Arthur and Porter Hall.
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Source Desperate, alcoholic, unscrupulous journalist Charles Tatum (the brilliant Kirk Douglas) takes refuge in a small Albuquerque newspaper whose motto is "tell the truth" (the newspaper's president is the only decent person in the film), who, due to a misfortune, seizes the opportunity of a scoop and uses the most sensational and brutal journalistic techniques available to blackmail his way back to his old…More
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