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"Ace in the Hole" - Title

I have seen this film on TV several times since the 1960s, both in Ireland and the UK, and the title has always been "Ace in the Hole". Perhaps it is only in the USA that the title "The Big Carnival" persisted until the era of TCM.

It may not have been a box-office success, but I have always rated it among Kirk Douglas's best, second perhaps only to "Paths of Glory". 92.3.60.76 (talk) 00:45, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

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I went to this page to say precicely the same thing. This film was making the 16mm rental rounds as Ace in the Hole, and all the rep houses billed it as such -- in 1970s U.S. The film also had distribution as "The Big Story." The article has its chronology wrong.69.231.194.49 (talk) 15:10, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

I will investigate this later today for a clearer explanation. Erik (talk | contribs) 15:48, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

I've only seen the movie once easily 20-25 years ago here on Australian television and it was definitely called "The Big Carnival" it took me a while to find this article to reference due to search engines listing the unfolding Thai Cave rescue of a soccer team and their ?coach? - their rescue is thought to take four months at this early stage, hence my recalling "The Big Carnival" Timelord2067 (talk) 04:49, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

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Alternate ending?

Following on from my previous post, was there an alternative ending filmed? I recall the reporter (Douglas) working for the local news paper at the very end of the movie after he gained a conscience after the cavers' death and blurted out the news of the death before he could call it in to New York. The tourists who'd come to see the attraction pack their bags and cars and leave. Shots of the various carnival rides abandoned (as though to reinforce the notion of it having been a Carnival) Timelord2067 (talk) 05:00, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

Neither the extensive notes about the film in the AFI Catalog [1] nor the TCM article say anything about a changed ending. A Google search didn't turn up anything either. Beyond My Ken (talk) 05:20, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

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+Following on from my previous post, was there an alternative ending filmed?  I recall the reporter (Douglas) working for the local news paper at the very end of the movie after he gained a conscience after the cavers' death and blurted out the news of the death before he could call it in to New York.  The tourists who'd come to see the attraction pack their bags and cars and leave.  Shots of the various carnival rides abandoned (as though to reinforce the notion of it having been a Carnival) [[User:Timelord2067|Timelord2067]] ([[User talk:Timelord2067|talk]]) 05:00, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
+:Neither the extensive notes about the film in the AFI Catalog [https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/50004] nor the [http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/613826/Ace-in-the-Hole/articles.html TCM article] say anything about a changed ending. A Google search didn't turn up anything either. [[User:Beyond My Ken|Beyond My Ken]] ([[User talk:Beyond My Ken|talk]]) 05:20, 4 July 2018 (UTC)