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"Ace in the Hole", 1951 (Mike)

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"Ace in the Hole", 1951

No, my first film is not gay porn starring some guy named Ace.

Billy Wilder.

Kurt Douglas plays an ego-maniacal newspaper reporter that "discovers"
a human-interest story with some guy who is stuck in a collapsed mine.
Good ol' Kurt decides to keep the guy in the hole so he can create
more hype around the story. Off the wall and a great comment on even
today's media-crazed world.

Try it out and let me know.Film was watched consuming the wonderful El Toro Golden Ale.



Originally written March 14th, 2009

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