Ace in the Hole
Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole is one of the most scathing indictments of American culture ever produced by a Hollywood filmmaker. Kirk Douglas gives the fiercest performance of his career as Chuck Tatum, an amoral newspaper reporter who washes up in dead-end Albuquerque, happens upon the scoop of a lifetime, and will do anything to keep getting the lurid headlines. Wilder’s follow-up to Sunset Boulevard is an even darker vision, a no-holds-barred exposé of the American media’s appetite for sensation that has gotten only more relevant with time.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Audio commentary by film scholar Neil Sinyard
- Portrait of a “60% Perfect Man”: Billy Wilder, a 1980 documentary featuring interviews with Wilder by film critic Michel Ciment
- Interview with actor Kirk Douglas from 1984
- Excerpts from a 1986 appearance by Wilder at the American Film Institute
- Audio excerpts from an interview with Wilder’s coscreenwriter Walter Newman
- Video afterword by filmmaker Spike Lee
- Stills gallery
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: Essays by critic Molly Haskell and filmmaker Guy Maddin
New cover by F. Ron Miller
Collector's Sets
Collector's Set
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Audio commentary by film scholar Neil Sinyard
- Portrait of a “60% Perfect Man”: Billy Wilder, a 1980 documentary featuring interviews with Wilder by film critic Michel Ciment
- Interview with actor Kirk Douglas from 1984
- Excerpts from a 1986 appearance by Wilder at the American Film Institute
- Audio excerpts from an interview with Wilder’s coscreenwriter Walter Newman
- Video afterword by filmmaker Spike Lee
- Stills gallery
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: Essays by critic Molly Haskell and filmmaker Guy Maddin
New cover by F. Ron Miller
Cast
- Kirk Douglas
- Chuck Tatum
- Jan Sterling
- Lorraine Minosa
- Bob Arthur
- Herbie Cook
- Porter Hall
- Jacob Q. Boot
- Frank Cady
- Mr. Federber
- Richard Benedict
- Leo Minosa
- Ray Teal
- Sheriff Kretzer
- Frank Jaquet
- Smollett
Credits
- Director
- Billy Wilder
- Produced by
- Billy Wilder
- Written by
- Billy Wilder
- Written by
- Lesser Samuels
- Written by
- Walter Newman
- Associate producer
- William Schorr
- Director of photography
- Charles B. Lang, Jr.
- Editorial supervision
- Doane Harrison
- Music score by
- Hugo Friedhofer
- Art direction
- Hal Pereira
- Art direction
- Earl Hedrick
- Edited by
- Arthur Schmidt
- Costumes
- Edith Head
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