“As a diatribe against all that is worst in human nature, it has moments dipped in pure vitriol.”
Kirk Douglas is terrific as a washed-up hack who exploits the story of a man trapped in a cave for own careerist ends. Billy Wilder takes a scathing view of the media circus that feels as spot-on now as it did in the early 50s.
In one of the most powerhouse performances in American screen-acting, the great Kirk Douglas stars as Chuck Tatum, a newspaper reporter who stumbles upon a potentially career-making story in Albuquerque, New Mexico (nearly sixty years later, the setting for Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad).
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