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Movie Overview
Cast
• Kirk Douglas
• Jan Sterling
• Robert Arthur
Director
• Billy Wilder
MPAA Rating
Not Rated
Ace in the Hole (1951)

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OFCS Rating: 86% Fresh
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4.5/5
"Not only did Wilder pillory the media in Ace in the Hole, he made monkeys out of everyone. Look at you, he said, you eat this drivel with both hands."  Filmcritic.com  Christopher Null

B-
"Thoroughly cynical film noir."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

4/4
"Not unlike Fritz Lang’s equally misanthropic Scarlet Street, Ace in the Hole plays the squashing of one man’s human spirit for societal-weary gravitas."  Slant Magazine  Ed Gonzalez

"As a filmmaker, the problem with being ahead of your time is that most audiences/critics/quasi-Luddites won't like your movie."  Pretentious Musings  Kevin Koehler

3.5/5
"The Network of the newspaper age."  Goatdog's Movies  Michael W. Phillips, Jr.

2/5
"Excessively overrated Billy Wilder bile-bath, with Kirk Douglas at his teeth-gnashing hammiest."  Film Threat  Phil Hall

10/10
"Quite possibly the most Billy Wilder-ey of all Wilder's films."  Antagony & Ecstasy  Tim Brayton
OFCS Rating: 86% Fresh
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