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Ace in the Hole (aka the Big Carnival) is writer/director Billy Wilder's poison pen letter to post WW2 America.... more
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"Ace in the Hole" (aka "the Big Carnival") is writer/director Billy Wilder's poison pen letter to post WW2 America.
Douglas deliberately fails to rescue a trapped man in a cave to prolong an exclusive story. The rescue could have been accomplished in hours but Douglas (as failed former hot shot journalist) drags out a simple rescue to hopefully get back into the big time.
Only the trapped man dies from pneumonia and Douglas falls dead to the floor in the film's final image.
Above ground the area had descended into a grotesque celebratory carnival.
The bitter tone of the movie spelled flop for the Viennese born Wider.
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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