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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One, Two, Three (1961)
dir. Billy Wilder. I watched this for the first time, at the annual Open Air Kino presented by the Goethe Institute. Super fast dialogue, sidesplittingly funny, full of great physical comedy, and cold war politics jokes. Horst Buchholz (“the German James Dean”) steals the show.#onetwothree #1961 #billywilder
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