Movies Watched -- Ace in the Hole (1951)

Added on by C. Maoxian.

111 minute running time so maybe could have trimmed 10 minutes or so… Kirk Douglas is great but this is dark stuff from Shmuel Vildr … cashing in on tragedy … took me several nights to watch it because I had to take breaks from it … probably due in part to the quarantine, so my mood isn’t as chipper as usual … cynical newspaperman Chuck Tatum going to get back to New Yawk from the boondocks one way or another … good old 1950s misogyny to boot … I’m going to hold off from recommending this one for now, though during brighter times I imagine I’d quickly give it a green-go rating. John Farr did anyway.

The circus is over!

The circus is over!