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	Ace in the Hole (re-release) (2002): Reviews
		An uncompromising portrait of human nature at its worst, the film was so far ahead of its time in its depiction of a media circus and the public's appetite for tragedy that it was a commercial disaster when first released, but now stands as one of the great American films of the 1950s.
		Ace in the Hole is an acquired taste -- and an unforgettable one.
		Ace in the Hole is a movie about the fascination of disaster that is itself a fascinating disaster.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/aceinthehole (485 words)

	Ace in the Hole (1951 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ace in the Hole is a 1951 fl-and-white film starring Kirk Douglas and directed by Billy Wilder.
		This film has been imitated on The Simpsons when Bart Simpson drops a sound device down a well and pretends to be Timmy O'Toole.
		Ace in the Hole is loosely based on events surrounding the 1925 entrapment and death of W. Floyd Collins in Sand Cave, Kentucky.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ace_in_the_Hole_(1951_film) (378 words)

	Ace in the Hole - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ace in the Hole is a slang expression meaning a secret or extra asset to assure success, referring to the ace playing card a player has as a hole card (or face down card) in a game of stud poker.
		Ace in the Hole (1951 film), a film made in 1951 starring Kirk Douglas
		"Ace in the Hole", a 1979 song by Paul Simon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ace_in_the_hole (262 words)

	Ace in the Hole (1951 movie): Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Ace in the Hole is a 1951 fl-and-white (fl-and-white: fl-and-white is a broad adjectival term used to describe a number of forms of visual...
		Originally released theatrically as Ace in the Hole; The Big Carnival is the title used for television airings.
		This film is loosely based on events surrounding the 1925 entrapment and death of W. Floyd Collins (Floyd Collins: floyd collins (july 20, 1887 - february 17, 1925) was a cave explorer...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/ace_in_the_hole_1951_movie (483 words)

	newcritics - » Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole (1951) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Ace in the Hole is based in part on the real-life story of Floyd Collins.
		To my mind “Ace in the Hole” is the most German of Wilder’s films, its world connected to that he knew in Berlin as a reporter.
		Ace in the Hole is the absolute nastiest film he made, but it’s also one of his best.
	newcritics.com /blog1/2007/01/19/billy-wilders-ace-in-the-hole-1951 (1855 words)

	Jan Sterling 1921 - 2004 at tedstrong.com
		Wilder's cynical film "Ace in the Hole" was rereleased as "The Big Carnival" when audiences were repelled by its harshness.
		In Billy Wilder's searing Ace in the Hole (1951), she played Lorraine, the slatternly, opportunistic wife of cave-in victim Richard Benedict, summing up her philosophy of life with the classic line "I don't go to church.
		Sterling retired from films in favor of the stage in 1969; she returned before the cameras in 1976 to portray Mrs.
	www.tedstrong.com /jan-sterling.shtml (1973 words)

	Ace in the Hole - Rotten Tomatoes
		Ace in the Hole is badly weakened by a poorly constructed plot, which depends for its strength upon assumptions that are not only naive but absurd.
		This 1951 film, about a cynical reporter who seizes on the plight of a man trapped in a mine shaft to promote his career, is cold, lurid, and fascinating, propelled by the same combination of moral outrage and sneaky admiration.
		Ace in the Hole continues the barbed satire of Sunset Blvd. in a different medium.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/1107426-ace_in_the_hole (657 words)

	The Reeler > Features > Putting an <i>Ace</i> to the Name
		Billy Wilder’s ninth American film was a virtuoso feat for the seasoned director; it was 1951, and his career had reached its zenith.
		Film Forum's new print arrives more than a half-century since Freeman squelched the film; shown briefly in 2006 as part of the theater’s Wilder retrospective, it received a revamped title card from Paramount that made penance for Freeman’s delusions.
		While Ace in the Hole lacks the perfectly calibrated noir formula achieved in Wilder’s Double Indemnity or the surrealist inflation of movie mythology in his great Sunset Boulevard, its central thrust is much more tangible than either of those earlier films.
	www.thereeler.com /features/putting_an_ace_to_the_name.php (915 words)

	ACE IN THE HOLE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The brilliantly titled Ace in the Hole stars Kirk Douglas as Chuck Tatum, a former hot-shot reporter so derailed by egomania that he needs to rebuild his career in a desert backwater like Albuquerque, New Mexico.
		If you had a bone to pick with Ace it would be its overly melodramatic last fifteen minutes, but this does enable Wilder to produce a suitably neat, circular resolution (which may have fit better in a more stylised medium like the theatre) that leaves audiences satisfied.
		Ace in the Hole is a film that was way too ahead of it’s time.
	www.bighousefilm.com /reviews/ace_in_the_hole.htm (488 words)

	! Hall of Fame
		Film footage of Glassell's jumping, tail-walking and greyhounding granders was used in the movie version of Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, and his all-tackle record fish hangs in the Smithsonian Institution.
		From 1951 to 1965 he was “the voice of the [Boston] Red Sox,” as well as the first announcer for the Boston Celtics.
		In 1978 Frank Mather was honored with Scientist Emeritus status at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.
	www.igfa.org /hall.asp (19153 words)

	Film & TV: Boston Phoenix Movie Clips (The Boston Phoenix . 11-17-97)
		Martha Ballard was the wife of a surveyor who moved to rural Maine, became for all practical purposes the local doctor, lost three of her children to an epidemic, and over two decades watched her career dissipate, as male physicians and "modern medicine" slowly usurped the domain of the midwife/healer.
		The film's physical detail is authentic and its photography pensive and luminous, as it blends genres, illuminating the world of an ordinary woman with warmth and simplicity.
		There's a revelatory refinement in Wishman's crudeness, a canny sophistication in her puerile sensationalism -- if this film is indicative of the rest of her many features, she's indeed a '60s filmmaker worth reclaiming.
	weeklywire.com /ww/11-17-97/boston_movies_clips.html (1125 words)

	TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES
		The idea for Ace in the Hole came from young dramatist Walter Newman, who convinced Wilder there was a great screen story in the 1925 case of Floyd Collins, a cave explorer trapped by falling rock in a Kentucky cavern.
		Ace in the Hole, written by Wilder with Newman and Lesser Samuels, takes its broad outline directly from the Collins tragedy, which is explicitly mentioned in the dialogue.
		The box-office failure of Ace in the Hole stemmed partly from hostility in the press and partly from adverse audience response.
	www.tcm.com /thismonth/article/?cid=152031 (1114 words)

	Busfilm
		Film is a remarkably flexible medium that can tell any story – from the lowly assembly line worker in Modern Times to the rich and powerful Charles Foster Kane.
		Ironically, while much of the film/narrative writing shows how film perpetuates oppression (e.g., by suggesting the inferiority of women or racial minorities, or understating the horrors of prisons or the death penalty), my article shows how film overstates the evil of the supposed oppressor – that is, the large corporation.
		On the evidence of this film, it seems the answer is that the new economics of filmmaking might affect part, but not all, of the message.
	busmovie.typepad.com /busfilm (5801 words)

	St. Louis Chronology
		This film is a study of the ecosystem of a body of water in Tsavo, where Root takes the camera to the underwater world of the hippo.
		Filmed in Montreal in 1961, we visit with a man whose crime was robbing a postal sub-station of stamps, and later, attempting to commit suicide, and threatening the life of the doctor who pumped his stomach.
		The film is at least partly autobiographical, as Vigo, the son of an anarchist who may have been murdered by French authorities, grew up in a stifling boarding school environment similar to this one, with its petty rules and ignorant administrators.
	www.afana.org /stlouischrono.htm (10606 words)

	Movie Database - tvguide.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Inspired by the real-life Floyd Collins cave-in disaster of the 1920s, ACE IN THE HOLE is a searing example of writer-director Billy Wilder at his most brilliantly misanthropic.
		The fact that the film was a box-office bomb is not surprising since the public was obviously not flattered by its depiction of them as gullible sensation-seekers who morbidly gather around a disaster for some all-American fun.
		As a result, the film is as grim and pitiless as the relentless drill that pounds away at the mountain top.
	online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=7855 (454 words)

	Classic Coming Attractions by Barrie Maxwell
		The gradual demise of the western as a major movie genre beginning in the mid-1960s was accompanied by a number of variations on the western film, not the least of which was the western parody.
		The gold is tracked down early in the film and much of the rest of the effort sees the gold changing hands as the various searchers get the upper hand.
		The film degenerates into a lot of noisy and pointless gunplay at the end, all somehow supposed to be funny.
	www.thedigitalbits.com /articles/barriemaxwell/maxwell080405b.html (1836 words)

	Slant Magazine - Film Review: Ace in the Hole
		The film's genius is the metaphoric impact the pressure outside the cave has on the inside; as the immorality escalates, Leo inches closer to death.
		This is the film's mantra of greed, and Ace in the Hole allowed Wilder to question the very nature of human interest stories and the twisted relationship between the American media and its public.
		More than 50 years after the film's release, when magazines compete to come up with the cattiest buzz terms and giddily celebrate the demise of celebrity relationships for buffo bucks, Ace in the Hole feels more relevant than ever.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=953 (532 words)

	Ace In The Hole (1951) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		When I walked into the Egyptian Theatre tonight to watch Ace in the Hole (1951) as part of the Cinematheque's weekend series of "Movies not on Video," I was momentarily elated to see Jan Sterling's photo displayed in the lobby.
		He really didn't like discussing this film too much in his later years and hated the title switch made by Paramount after the initial release in 1951.
		Half a century later, this film detailing the media exploitation of a trapped man in a New Mexicocliff dwelling due to the darker reflexes of the human condition continues to resonate with topical clarity.
	www.filmmonthly.com /Video/Articles/AceInTheHole/AceInTheHole.html (450 words)

	Ace in the Hole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Billy Wilder's Ace in the Hole is a scathing, cool-as-hell satire that -- in typical Wilder fashion -- hasn't aged in over fifty years (in fact, it's as relevant as ever).
		The film works on a tripod of levels: one, as an examination of media morality and the ends to which our media exploits disaster.
		At the center of this juggling act is the dialogue (succinct, stylized, rough and tough; Wilder's scripts are incomparable) and Kirk Douglas's pungent, hyperbolic lead performance (the writer he plays is so fucking suave he lights his match with a typewriter).
	www.jaredsapolin.com /aceinthehole.html (226 words)

	Ace in the Hole - Moviefone
		Rating: NR Synopsis: Paramount's ace screenwriting team of Billy Wilder, Walter Newman and Lesser Samuels came up with their bitterest, most trenchant screenplay to date...
		Ace in the Hole (1951) Ace in the Hole on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more...
		In the film, "Ace in the Hole", unemployed newspaper reporter Charles Tatum...
	movies.aol.com /movie/ace-in-the-hole/11066/main (213 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Ace in the Hole : Review
		A movie truly ahead of its time, Ace in the Hole (also known as The Big Carnival) turned out to be too bitter and cynical for moviegoers in 1951.
		Ace was perhaps not up to the standard of those works, but it clearly stands as one of Wilder's many achievements.
		American culture wouldn't be ready for such a large dose of pessimism until the 1970s; even then, a film such as 1976's Network, which clearly paralleled the tone of Wilder's effort, was dismissed by many viewers as too hysterical.
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/52444/review.jhtml (250 words)

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		This 1951 film, about a cynical reporter who seizes on the plight of a man trapped in a mine shaft to promote his career, is cold, lurid, and fascinating, propelled by the same combination of moral outrage and sneaky admiration that animates the paperback novels of Jim Thompson and James M. Cain.
		Kirk Douglas stars, and his psychotic charm is perfect for the part; Jan Sterling is unforgettable as the victim's hard-bitten wife, who is willing to go along with Douglas's scheme.
		The original, defiantly cynical title was Ace in the Hole.
	onfilm.chireader.com /movies/capsules/00994_BIG_CARNIVAL.html (101 words)

	Mad City . The Boston Phoenix . 11-17-97
		Costa Gavras's urban thriller, a retread of Billy Wilder's 1951 film noir An Ace in the Hole, stars the ubiquitous John Travolta as Sam Baily, an ex-museum guard gone postal.
		As Sam locks the exits and takes his boss (Blythe Danner) and a group of school children hostage, he unwittingly traps freelance news anchor Max Brackett (Dustin Hoffman) inside with them.
		The excellent cast is helped along by Gavras's well-paced direction and a screenplay that, though weakly echoing the plot of Dog Day Afternoon, goes a long way toward indicting our cultural addiction to a biased and corrupt medium.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/boston/m/madcity1.html (289 words)

	CrÃ³nicas Movie Review at Hollywood Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In Billy Wilder's acclaimed and sadly unavailable 1951 masterpiece, Ace in the Hole, Kirk Douglas plays a reporter banished to a small town paper who tries to claw his way back to the top by exploiting a tragedy.
		The 50-minute piece includes production footage from the film's exotic Babahoyo, Ecuador, location; illuminating interviews (both on- and off-set) with writer/director Cordero, the cast, and most of the key crew members—from the cinematographer, set designer, and casting director right down to the local chauffeurs (whose upbeat reactions to friendly star John Leguizamo are enjoyably real).
		The director's commentary (spoken in English) is available under "Setup." Though it covers some of the same territory as the making-of featurette, writer/director Cordero's passion for his subject matter and deep knowledge of the politics and culture of his native Ecuador are even more evident here; his voiceover is candid, intelligent, and heartfelt.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?mid=140564 (1621 words)

	Ace In The Hole Review \| TVGuide.com
		The word used most often to describe Wilder in general, and ACE IN THE HOLE in particular, is "cynical," but a closer analysis reveals that this is really a misnomer.
		The fact that the film was a box-office bomb is not surprising since the public was obviously not flattered by its depiction of them as gullible sensation-seekers who morbidly gather around a disaster for some all-American fun.
		As a result, the film is as grim and pitiless as the relentless drill that pounds away at the mountain top.
	www.tvguide.com /movies/ace-hole/review/106920 (440 words)

	Ace in the Hole
		Ace in the Hole used the traditional tension between the Hollywood plot and the Hollywood audience much as Hitchcock would in Rear Window (1954).
		It is a measure of Sinyard and Turner's insight that, in an era when reception studies celebrate the heterogeneity of spectators and their responses, editor Arthur Schmidt's cuts from action to audience bear out the compelling validity of their reading.
		There is scarcely a shot in the film which doesn't feature Tatum, and in one of the boldest in any Wilder film, Lang sets up a low angle as the bleeding, defeated journalist collapses at the feet of his editor.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/01/19/ace.html (1109 words)

	64690. Wilder, Billy. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
		1906), U.S. film director, Lesser Samuel, screenwriter, and Walter Newman, screenwriter.
		Lorraine (Jan Sterling), in The Big Carnival (film) (1951).
		The movie was originally released under the title Ace in the Hole.
	www.bartleby.com /66/90/64690.html (75 words)

	Film Review - Ace in the Hole (aka The Big Carnival)
		The film was far ahead for its times in its depiction of a media circus, greedy professionals, self-absorbed politicians, and the public's tireless appetite for live tragedy.
		In 1951, the time, the film was a flop, but with time, however, it stands as one of the great American movies of the 1950s.
		The film's look is appropriately bleak, set in a remote locale, with only a roadside café and souvenir shop in sight.
	emanuellevy.com /article.php?articleID=3094 (662 words)

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