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Mr. Ace
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 0014381537321
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Release Date: July 20, 1999
Running Time: 83 minutes
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: August 02, 1946
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Editorial Review:
Sylvia Sydney stars as a ruthless congresswoman who clashes with political boss George Raft when she runs for governor. When she can't woo his support, she takes him and his all-powerful Tomahawk Club head on in a campaign of clean government--until her own dirty tricks start to backfire on her. Only then, after she has a good cry, does she pick up the pieces with the support of former foes to take another shot at the campaign, this time for all the right reasons. Espousing equality but falling back on hackneyed melodrama clichés, the film has its feet in two worlds, which is not all that surprising for an ambitious low-budget drama from the 1940s. But more empowering than the conflicted message is Sydney's energized performance as the political pro, taking on the power-playing big boys at their own game on their field of play. Raft is his usual stiff, steely self, hardly blinking as he falls for his attractive opponent, but always reminding us there's a viper behind his hard smile. This noirish take on the war of the sexes never rises above its modest budget, but director Edwin L. Marin, with the help of the legendary cinematographer Karl Struss (Sunrise), gives the film a handsome stylistic polish. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - An entertaining movie if your standards aren't too high, and mine aren't. I like Mr. Ace
George Raft plays Eddie Ace, head of the state's Tomahawk Club. Ace is a behind-the-scenes political fixer, a man who can deliver votes. Nowadays he'd be seen as a cross between a machine boss, a lobbyist and a political consultant, but without the body odor of the last two.
Sylvia Sidney plays Margaret Wyndham Chase, a glamorous, spoiled society dame with three names. Chase is a wealthy, ambitious Congresswoman with ice water in her veins who now intends to be elected governor. "I know ... Read More
Rating:  - Mr. Ace
Congresswoman Margaret Chase (Sylvia Sidney) is rich and beautiful and used to getting what she wants with few undue delays. Eddie Ace (George Raft), Mr. Ace to the likes of us, is the cool and soft-spoken leader of the Tomahawk Club. Here in Everystate, U.S.A., one does not become governor without going through the Tomahawk Club. Not if they want to be elected, that is. Mrs. Chase wants to be governor.
MR. ACE was released in 1946, just a year after World War Two ended, and it offers ... Read More
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