One of the most scathing indictments of American culture ever produced by a Hollywood filmmaker, this Billy Wilder film is legendary for both its cutting social critique and its status as a hard-to-find cult classic. Kirk Douglas gives the fiercest performance of his career as Chuck Tatum, an amoral newspaper reporter caught in dead-end Albuquerque who happens upon the story of a lifetime - an will do anything to ensure he gets the scoop. This film is a dark visioned, no-holds-barred expose that anticipated the rise of the American media circus. Jan Sterling costars in this film co-written by Walter Newman.