PRODUCTION COMPANIES:
Paramount Pictures

Ace in the Hole

Rough, tough Chuck Tatum, who battered his way to the top... trampling everything in his path - men, women and morals !

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Genre:

Drama

Runtime:

111

Released:

1951

Rating:

7.857

Budget:

$1,821,052

Box Office:

$1,300,000

WRITERS

Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels, Walter Newman

FILM OVERVIEW

Ace in the Hole

An arrogant reporter exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to revitalize his career.

DIRECTOR

Billy Wilder

GALLERY

PRODUCTION TEAM

Billy Wilder (Director)

Billy Wilder (Writer)

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Lesser Samuels (Writer)

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Walter Newman (Writer)

Billy Wilder (Producer)

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Arthur P. Schmidt (Editor)

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A. Earl Hedrick (Art Direction)

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Hal Pereira (Art Direction)

Hugo Friedhofer (Original Music Composer)

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Charles Lang (Director of Photography)

CAST MEMBERS

Kirk Douglas

Jan Sterling

Robert Arthur

Porter Hall

Frank Cady

Richard Benedict

Ray Teal

Lewis Martin

John Berkes

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Frances Dominguez

MORE PRODUCTION

Edith Head (Costume Design), William Schorr (Associate Producer), Bert McKay (Casting), Sam Comer (Set Decoration), Ray Moyer (Set Decoration), Wally Westmore (Makeup Department Head), Hal Lierley (Makeup Artist), Hugh Brown (Production Manager), Richard Blaydon (Production Manager), Charles C. Coleman (Assistant Director), Francisco Day (Assistant Director), John Cope (Sound), Farciot Edouart (Visual Effects), Irmin Roberts (Visual Effects), Doane Harrison (Supervising Film Editor), Sidney Cutner (Orchestrator), George Parrish (Orchestrator), Leo Shuken (Orchestrator), Van Cleave (Orchestrator), Irene Martin (Stand In), William Rand (Camera Operator), George Sherman (Grip), Ed Fitzharris (Wardrobe Designer), Harold Lewis (Sound Recordist), Gene Garvin (Sound Recordist)

MORE CAST

Gene Evans, Frank Jaquet, Harry Harvey, Bob Bumpas, Geraldine Hall, Richard Gaines, Oscar Belinda, Martin Bendleton, Basil Chester, Ken Christy, Stewart Kirk Clawson, Iron Eyes Cody, Francisco Day, Lester Dorr, Claire Du Brey, Edith Evanson, William Fawcett, John Stuart Fulton, Joe Gray, Charles Griffin, Larry Hogan, Frank Keith, Bob Kortman, Martha Maryman, Stanley McKay, Joe J. Merrill, Paul D. Merrill, Lee Miller, Ralph Moody, Bert Moorhouse, William H. O’Brien, Frank Andrew Parker, Martin Pendleton, William N. Peters, Timothy Carey, Bill Ramsey, Jack Roberts, Bill Sheehan, Bert Stevens, John ‘Bub’ Sweeney, Rythem Wranglers

'Ace in the Hole'

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