Ace in the Hole: The Criterion Collection

DVD - APPROX. 111 MINS. - 1951 - US Rating: NR

Main feature:

Release Jul 17, 2007
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audio English: Dolby Digital 1.0
Subtitles English
Studio Criterion/Voyager
Year 1951
Genre Drama

Special features:

  • Audio commentary by film scholar Neil Sinyard
  • Theatrical trailer
  • Portrait Of A 60% Perfect Man: Billy Wilder, a 1980 documentary featuring in-depth interviews with Wilder by film critic Michael Ciment
  • A 1984 interview with Kirk Douglas
  • Excerpts from a 1986 appearance by Wilder at the American Film Institute
  • Excerpts from an audio interview with coscreenwriter Walter Newman
  • New video afterword by filmmaker Spike Lee
  • Stills gallery
  • PLUS: New essays by film critic Molly Haskell and filmmaker Guy Maddin

Synopsis:

One of the most scathing indictments of American culture ever produced by a Hollywood filmmaker, Academy Award-winner Billy Wilder's Ace In The Hole is legendary for both its cutting social critique and its status as a hard-to-find cult classic. Kirk Douglas gives the fiercest performance of his career as Chuck Tatum, an amoral newspaper reporter caught in dead-end Albuquerque who happens upon the story of a lifetime-and will do anything to ensure he gets the scoop. Wilder's follow-up to Sunset Boulevard is an even darker vision, a no-holds-barred expose that anticipated the rise of the American media circus.

Cast and Crew:

Criterion/Voyager presents
Porter HallBob ArthurJan SterlingKirk DouglasRichard Benedict"Ace in the Hole: The Criterion Collection"
Written byWalter NewmanWritten byLesser SamuelsWritten byBilly Wilderdirected byBilly Wilder
Production Year: 1951

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