Ace in the Hole (1951)
Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole stars Kirk Douglas as a disgraced big-city reporter who, relegated to a job at a small paper in Albuquerque, learns of a man trapped in a collapsed cliff dwelling. Seeing his chance to reclaim his former success, he builds the situation up into a media circus.
The story is about both how the news media can overhype small stories into massive ones, and how politicians and a gullible public are part of the phenomenon.
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