The Pointing Finger (1922)

Cora: What else could I do? Oh Frank.Frank, if I"d only met you first.Frank: Well...Cora: Frank, d[Expand All]

Cora: What else could I do? Oh Frank.Frank, if I"d only met you first.Frank: Well...Cora: Frank, do you love me?Frank: Yes.Cora: Do you love me so much that nothing else matters?Frank: Yes.Cora: There"s, there"s one thing we could do that would fix everything for us.Frank: What? Pray for something to happen to Nick?Cora: Something like that.Frank: Cora!Cora: Well, you suggested it yourself once, didn"t you?Frank: I was only joking.Cora: Were you?Frank: Yes, I was.Cora: Why had you started to think about it a little?Frank: Maybe I said it, but I didn"t really mean it.The pungent plot ofAce in the Hole- about excessive "below-the-belt" journalism - was personified in its main character - the stranded, stagnating, and down-and-out East Coast news-reporter Charles "Chuck" Tatum (Kirk Douglas) at heAlbuquerque Sun-Bulletinin New Mexico.[Director Murnau forced his lead actor to wear weighted shoes to produce the effect - a hunched-over, laborious, hesitating gait in his step.[The film closes with the same piece.] It is a religious, almost spiritual environment in which he prepares for his ultimate battles - in the location of his only reality, the confined boundaries of the ring.[Collapse Section]