He doesn't set out to kill the guy, though. It's not really
murder in the traditional sense. Still, it is a crime, so
point taken.
On Feb 2, 2008 11:13 AM, Jeff Vorzimmer <
jvorzimmer@austin.rr.com> wrote:
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>
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> >I just finished watching Billy Wilder's Ace in
the Hole, with Kirk
> > Douglas as Charles Tatum, an utterly
unscrupulous reporter Charles
> > Tatum. While it's not a crime movie, it
certainly is a noir movie,
> > with a main character who sets about
engineering his own destruction
> > right from the start. Douglas was good, if a
bit over the top, and the
> > movie did an excellent job of capturing a
literal media circus. I
> > think one of the criteria for a work of art to
be great is that it has
> > to hold up over time. If anything, I think Ace
in the Hole's story is
> > more relevant now in our media besotted culture
than it was when it
> > was made, and newspapers, radio and television
were all there were.
> > All in all a very good film.
>
> Actually, it is a crime movie with the Kirk Douglas
character as,
> ultimately
> the murderer, as he confesses at the end of the
film.
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> Jeff
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