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.

Well, we're making progress, good progress, but every second counts in this rescue operation, and I'm sure your radio audience will excuse me, as well as Mr Smollett here if he goes back to his post at the drill.
I don't know why they have to use a drill at all.
They don't have to go from the top.
There's a quicker way to get that man out of there.
- What's your name, sir?
- My name is Kusac.
I did a lot of mining in my day, silver mining, that is, up in Virginia City.
Now, the way I see it... Yes, go ahead, Mr Kusac.
We're very much interested.
Well, we had cave-ins, quite a few of them.
One that I know of was further in than yours.
Were you ever in a cave-in yourself, Mr Kusac?
- No, not personally.
- Well, I was.
Course you might not call it a cave-in exactly, but I was stuck in an elevator once, in the store I work in, between the basement and the sub-basement.
It was six hours before they could get me out, and they had to use a blowtorch to do it.
Right from the top. Just like here.
I'm afraid I gotta be getting back to my crew.
As I was trying to say, we didn't have no big drill.
We didn't need it.
We just hauled in the timber and shored up the walls all the way back.
Now, if we did it that way in Virginia City why can't we do it that way here?
You're not telling me anything I don't know.
I know all about shoring and bracing... Mr Kusac, you see, this is a cliff dwelling and not a silver mine.
Well, I think it's all the same. A man's underground and you got to get him out.