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  • Title: Ace in the Hole (Criterion #396) [The Big Carnival] / Portrait of a 60% Perfect Man: Billy Wilder
  • Summary: A down-on-his-luck reporter, takes a job with a small New Mexico newspaper and finds a man trapped in a mine.
  • Director: Billy Wilder
  • Cast: Kirk Douglas, Robert Arthur, Richard Benedict, John Berkes, Frank Cady, Gene Evans, Porter Hall, Harry Harvey, Frank Jaquet, Lewis Martin, Jan Sterling, Ray Teal
  • Year: 1951
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  • Keywords: Film Noir
  • Format: DVD
  • Relation: All the President's Men, Citizen Kane, Double Indemnity, His Girl Friday, Out of the Past, Sweet Smell of Success, Touch of Evil
  • Language: English
  • Country: USA
  • Comments: The DVD includes an audio commentary by film scholar Neil Sinyard a documentary about Billy Wilder ("Portrait of a 60% Perfect Man: Billy Wilder"), a 1984 interview with Kirk Douglas, Billy Wilder at the American Film Institute in 1986, an audio interview with screenwriter Walter Newman, comments from director Spike Lee, photographs, essays by Molly Haskell and Guy Maddin and the theatrical trailer.
  • Collection: Drama