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Paramount Home Entertainment
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole is one of the most scathing indictments of American culture ever produced by a Hollywood filmmaker. Kirk Douglas gives the fiercest performance of his career as Chuck Tatum, an amoral newspaper reporter who washes up in dead-end Albuquerque, happens upon the scoop of a lifetime, and will do anything to keep getting the lurid headlines. Wilder’s follow-up to Sunset Boulevard is an even darker vision, a no-holds-barred exposé of the American media’s appetite for sensation that has gotten only more relevant with time.
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Format:
Blu-ray
DVD
Discs:
BD-50 (1 Disc)
DVD-9 (2 Discs)
Total: 3 Discs
Regions:
A (Blu-ray)
1 (DVD)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37:1
Audio Options:
English Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
English PCM Mono 1.0
Resolution:
480p/29.97
1080p/24
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Audio Commentary, Documentary, Interview, Q&A, Audio Interview, Gallery, Theatrical Trailer, Poster Insert
- Audio commentary by film scholar Neil Sinyard
- Portrait of a “60% Perfect Man”: Billy Wilder, a 1980 documentary featuring interviews with Billy Wilder by film critic Michel Ciment
- Interview with actor Kirk Douglas from 1984
- Excerpts from a 1986 appearance by Billy Wilder at the American Film Institute
- Audio excerpts from an interview with Wilder’s coscreenwriter Walter Newman
- Video afterword by filmmaker Spike Lee
- Stills gallery
- Trailer
- Fold-out insert with essays by critic Molly Haskell and filmmaker Guy Maddin
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Release Credits
Producer: Johanna Schiller
Artwork: F. Ron Miller
Release Notes on Restoration
Ace in the Hole
Ace in the Hole is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.37:1. On widescreen televisions, black bars will appear on the left and the right of the image to maintain the proper screen format. This new digital transfer was created in 4K resolution on a Scanity film scanner at Technicolor Hollywood from a 35mm duplicate negative, with specific portions taken from a 35mm acetate fine-grain assembled from several sources; the film was restored in 2K. Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, scratches, splices, and warps were manually removed using MTI's DRS and Pixel Farm's PFClean, while Digital Vision's Phoenix was used for small dirt, grain, and noise reduction.
The original monaural soundtrack was remastered at 24-bit from a 35mm optical soundtrack print. Clicks, thumps, hiss, and hum were manually removed using Pro Tools HD. Crackle was attenuated using AudioCube’s integrated workstation.
The original monaural soundtrack was remastered at 24-bit from a 35mm optical soundtrack print. Clicks, thumps, hiss, and hum were manually removed using Pro Tools HD. Crackle was attenuated using AudioCube’s integrated workstation.
Ace in the Hole
Ace in the Hole is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.37:1. On widescreen televisions, black bars will appear on the left and the right of the image to maintain the proper screen format. This new digital transfer was created in 4K resolution on a Scanity film scanner at Technicolor Hollywood from a 35mm duplicate negative, with specific portions taken from a 35mm acetate fine-grain assembled from several sources; the film was restored in 2K. Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, scratches, splices, and warps were manually removed using MTI's DRS and Pixel Farm's PFClean, while Digital Vision's Phoenix was used for small dirt, grain, and noise reduction.
The original monaural soundtrack was remastered at 24-bit from a 35mm optical soundtrack print. Clicks, thumps, hiss, and hum were manually removed using Pro Tools HD. Crackle was attenuated using AudioCube’s integrated workstation.
The original monaural soundtrack was remastered at 24-bit from a 35mm optical soundtrack print. Clicks, thumps, hiss, and hum were manually removed using Pro Tools HD. Crackle was attenuated using AudioCube’s integrated workstation.