>I just finished watching Billy Wilder's Ace in the
Hole, with Kirk
> Douglas as Charles Tatum, an utterly unscrupulous
reporter Charles
> Tatum. While it's not a crime movie, it certainly is
a noir movie,
> with a main character who sets about engineering his
own destruction
> right from the start. Douglas was good, if a bit
over the top, and the
> movie did an excellent job of capturing a literal
media circus. I
> think one of the criteria for a work of art to be
great is that it has
> to hold up over time. If anything, I think Ace in
the Hole's story is
> more relevant now in our media besotted culture than
it was when it
> was made, and newspapers, radio and television were
all there were.
> All in all a very good film.
Actually, it is a crime movie with the Kirk Douglas character
as, ultimately the murderer, as he confesses at the end of
the film.
Jeff
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