Many leave Lonely Are The Brave off their lists and should not.
Ace In The Hole is an absolute gem, as well as an indictment of the press.
But any Kirk Douglas performance is an experience. He had an intensity that probably goes beyond any other actor.
We don’t have that kind of actor anymore because we don’t have that kind of society. That’s why our present day larger than life heroes are fantasy superheroes.
Kirk Douglas always said that Lonely Are The Brave was his favorite film and his personal best. Myself, while I saw it, it is not one of his films I re-watch. Just didn't like it all that much.
As to Ace In The Hole, I should have had it in my above list. It showed the self-anointed 'we are 100% honest" media to be the fraud it has always been as many of its members are out for themselves and their particular viewpoint only--