Dir. Billy Wilder. In the New Mexico Dessert, failed journalist Chuck Tatum (Kirk Douglas) hustles his way into a job at a rural newspaper, hoping for a story to resurrect his career when he finds his literal ‘ace in the hole’ — a prospector trapped in an old mine. Chuck manipulates the trapped miner, his…… Continue reading Ace in the Hole (1951)
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Strangers On A Train (1951)
dir. Alfred Hitchcock. This has a lot more tennis that I remembered. The humor still works, with some surprising dark comedy at the end. Robert Walker is brilliant as the psychopath. I was saddened to read that he died shortly after the film came out in a drug overdose. The black & white cinematography is…… Continue reading Strangers On A Train (1951)
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