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.

Now why should we do that?
I'll tell you why. Because the guy in there is dying.
That's no good for my story.
When you have a big human interest story, you've got to give it a big human interest ending.
When you get people steamed up like this, don't ever make suckers out of them.
I don't want to hand them a dead man. That's why.
- Well, who says he's gonna be dead?
- I say so.
Well, maybe he will and maybe he won't, but I know one thing for sure.
If we make that switch now, we got a lot of explaining to do.
People are gonna wanna know a lot of things, especially them reporter friends of yours.
Like, for instance, why did we have to set up that drill?
Why did we waste five days?
First, let's get him out. Then we'll think of what to tell them.
Why should we stick out our necks?
Why not stick to the drill?
We'll speed it up as much as we can, and if we get him while he's still alive, well, fine.
If we're too late, well, we done the best we could.
It's a better story if we're not too late. I've sent for Smollett.
Smollett's my man, and he's taking my orders.
Wait a minute, Gus.
Sit down.
Now when Smollett comes, you can give him your orders.
Tell him to go in through the cliff dwelling, shore it up and get him out fast.
Not through the cliff dwelling.