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Chelsea Classics Summer 2023

1129 Weaver Dairy Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Phone: (919) 929-8428
Time: 4:00 PM

Happy Birthday USA - Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951, 111 min) 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.