# Cadenas de roca (1951)

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**Original title**: *Ace in the Hole*
**Runtime**: 112 min
**Genres**: Drama
**Directed by**: Billy Wilder
**Written by**: Billy Wilder, Walter Newman, Lesser Samuels
**Starring**: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall, Frank Cady, Richard Benedict

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

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Sunset Boulevard without the corpse. A down-on-his-luck journalist stumbles upon a local human-interest story and milks it for all it's worth. Kirk Douglas embodies the amoral newsman in Wilder's pitch-black satire.

**Mood tags**: pitch-black

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