"Ace in the Hole" (1951)
Billy Wilder's trenchant story of an amoral reporter (Kirk Douglas) who'll do anything to exploit his latest human interest story (how's this for timeliness: a miner trapped underground). The media run amok, fame, hype, our national pastime for manufactured 'news'...it's all here and skewered with a gimlet eye. A bomb on it's first release, amazingly prescient now.
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