Alex Cox introduces another classic cult movie.
Ace in the Hole starring Kirk Douglas Jan Sterling.
Chuck Tatum is a newspaper reporter on the way down, but when he learns of a man trapped in a rock fall, he sees a chance of getting back into the headlines.
Tatum is quite prepared to ensure that the man remains trapped while he milks the story for all it is worth. Billy Wilder delivers one of the most cynical broadsides of his career in this masterful depiction of media exploitation.
Screenplay by BILLY WILDER , LESSER SAMUELS and WALTER NEWMAN Produced and directed by BILLY WILDER
Television presentation NICK JONES
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