Ace in the Hole

Introduction and comments following Ace In The Hole, 1951, with TCM's Ben Mankiewicz and guest Carl Bernstein.

Guest host Madeleine Stowe introduces Ace In The Hole, 1951.

New Mexico highway cafe business booming for Lorraine (Jan Sterling) as word of her husband trapped in the cave spreads, scheming reporter Tatum (Kirk Douglas) recruits the sheriff (Ray Teal) who joins him pressuring the engineer (Frank Jaquet), in Billy Wilder's Ace In The Hole 1951.

Jaded reporter Tatum (Kirk Douglas) and cub Herbie (Bob Arthur) have stumbled into a story headed west from Albuquerque, meeting Lorraine (Jan Sterling), her father-in-law (John Berkes) and a deputy sheriff (Gene Evans), early in Billy Wilder’s Ace In The Hole, 1951.

Enterprising newsman Tatum (Kirk Douglas) emerging from the New Mexico cave where a tourist-trap operator is stuck, tangling with a deputy (Gene Evans) then the wife (Jan Sterling), and calling his editor, in Billy Wilder's Ace In The Hole, 1951.

Genuine New Mexico newsman Bob Bumpas reporting as director Billy Wilder's "everyman" Ferderber (Frank Cady) and wife (Geraldine Hall) are interviewed, circus atmosphere growing in Ace In The Hole, 1951, starring Kirk Douglas.

Hard-luck big city newsman Tatum (Kirk Douglas) has rolled into Albuquerque, because his car broke down, introducing himself to local editor Boot (Porter Hall) with a proposition, opening Billy Wilder's Ace In The Hole, 1951.

Original promo for the appearance of the acclaimed writer, director and producer Spike Lee, TCM's Guest Programmer for July, joining Robert Osborne starting at 8pm ET on Thursday, July 5th.

A small-town reporter (Kirk Douglas) milks a local disaster in Billy Wilder's cynical Ace in the Hole (aka The Big Carniaval - 1951).