Ace in the Hole (#396) USED

Billy Wilders Ace in the Hole is one of the most scathing indictments of American culture ever produced by a Hollywood filmmaker. Kirk Douglas gives the fiercest performance of his career as Chuck Tatum, an amoral newspaper reporter who washes up in dead-end Albuquerque, happens upon the scoop of a lifetime, and will do anything to keep getting the lurid headlines. Wilders follow-up to Sunset Boulevard is an even darker vision, a no-holds-barred expos of the American medias appetite for sensation that has gotten only more relevant with time.

SPECIAL FEATURES

New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray

Audio commentary by film scholar Neil Sinyard

Portrait of a 60% Perfect Man: Billy Wilder, a 1980 documentary featuring interviews with Wilder by film critic Michel Ciment

Interview with actor Kirk Douglas from 1984

Excerpts from a 1986 appearance by Wilder at the American Film Inst