Silver Screen Mornings: “Ace in the Hole “

Silver Screen Mornings presents Ace in the Hole (NR), Billy Wilder’s 1951 drama starring Kirk Douglas as Chuck Tatum, a reporter whose ambition has cost him jobs at newspapers across the country. He lands at a small New Mexico daily where the news is slow and the work is modest. When a local treasure hunter gets trapped in a mineshaft, Tatum sees his chance and turns the story into a media sensation, drawing out the situation with tactics that eventually catch up with him.