倒扣的王牌 Ace in the Hole (1951) Movie Script

杰瑞发布于2023-12-21

身无分文的记者丘克(Kirk Douglas 饰)流落一座新墨西哥州的小城,他舌如巧簧向当地报馆的主编推销自己,宣称自己有制造新闻的天才。波澜不惊的小城生活让曾经供职纽约的丘克倍感无聊。这天,主编令丘克外出采访,丘克于路却意外遭遇一名小镇店主里奥被困山洞。丘克敏感的意识 到这件事情背后的新闻价值,他迅速联系州长、工程队与医生。随着丘克的一篇篇报道,观看施救过程的民众陆续赶来,本欲离开的里奥妻子因为看到有利可图而选择留下,并与丘克站到了同一阵营,丘克安排采用费时的营救方式来维持事件的新闻热度。几天内人群不断涌入,营救现场俨然成为游乐场。丘克与纽约的老上司讨价还价之时,洞中的里奥却走到了生命的尽头.Charles Tatum, a down-on-his-luck reporter, takes a job with a small New Mexico newspaper. The job is pretty boring until he finds a man trapped in an old Indian dwelling. He jumps at the chance to make a name for himself by taking over and prolonging the rescue effort, and feeding stories to major newspapers. He creates a national media sensation and milks it for all it is worth - until things go terribly wrong.

- Yeah.
Like the faces of those folks you see outside a coal mine with maybe 84 men trapped inside.
One man's better than 84.
Didn't they teach you that?
- Teach me what?
- Human interest.
You pick up the paper, you read about 84 men or 284, or a million men, like in the Chinese famine.
You read it, but it doesn't stay with you.
One man's different. You wanna know all about him. That's human interest.
Somebody all by himself, like Lindbergh crossing the Atlantic or Floyd Collins.
Floyd Collins.
Doesn't that ring a bell?
No, not to me, it doesn't.
You never heard of Floyd Collins?
1925. Kentucky.
The guy pinned way down in that cave.
One of the biggest stories that ever broke.
Front page in every paper in the country for weeks.
Say, what'd you take at that school of journalism, advertising?
Well, maybe I did hear about it.
Then maybe you heard that a reporter on a Louisville paper crawled in for the story and came out with a Pulitzer Prize.
Guess we'd better not fool around with that.
Here. Hold this.
Now let me have it.
And camera.