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Ace in the Hole, also known as The Big Carnival, is a 1951 American satirical drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Billy Wilder. The film stars Kirk Douglas as a cynical, disgraced reporter who creates a media circus surrounding a man trapped in a cave in rural New Mexico to try to regain a job on a major newspaper. The film co-stars Jan Sterling and features Robert Arthur and Porter Hall.
- Director
- Billy Wilder
- Writer
- Billy Wilder · Walter Newman · Lesser Samuels
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- Release date
- 4 July 1951 · Released
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Country of origin
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Genres
- Drama · Film Noir
- Also known as
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- Deutsch
- Reporter des Satans
- Español
- El gran carnaval
- Français
- Le Gouffre aux chimères
- Italiano
- L'asso nella manica
- 日本語
- 地獄の英雄
- 한국어
- 비장의 술수
- Polski
- As w potrzasku
Data from Wikidata (CC0). Description adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): Wikipedia · Poster from Wikimedia Commons.