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.

And if there's no news, I'll go out and bite a dog.
- Make it $45.
- What makes you so cheap?
A fair question, considering I've been top man wherever I've worked.
You'll be glad to know that I've been fired from 11 papers with a total circulation of seven million, for reasons with which I don't want to bore you.
Go ahead. Bore me.
I'm a pretty good liar. I've done a lot of lying in my time.
I've lied to men who wear belts. I've lied to men who wear suspenders.
But I'd never be so stupid as to lie to a man who wears both belt and suspenders.
- How's that again?
- You strike me as a cautious man.
A man who checks and double-checks.
So I'll tell you why I was fired.
In New York, a story of mine brought on a libel suit.
In Chicago, I started something with the publisher's wife.
In Detroit, I was caught drinking out of season.
- In Cleveland... - I get the picture.
Now, then I find myself in Albuquerque with no money.
A burnt-out bearing, bad tyres and a lousy reputation.
Bad tyres can be dangerous.
I've only one chance to get back where I belong.
To land a job on a small-town paper like yours and wait and hope and pray for something big to break, something I can latch on to, something the wire services will gobble up and yell for more.
Just one good beat, a Tatum special, and they'll roll out the red carpet.
Because when they need you, they forgive and forget.
But until then, Mr Boot, you'll get yourself the best newspaperman you ever had.