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--
Funny story, my Dad liked the girl that played the Indian girl in the 1955 The Indian Fighter we had seen years before and it became a running joke between my parents. Mom would occasionally say she sure wished she could cook as well as my Father's Dream Indian. Dad would come back,"That would be nice, wouldn't it?"
So in the early 1960s me, Mom and Dad were at a drive in watching Hatari! which had Elsa Martinelli as the Duke's love interest, spicy Italian hottie Anna Maria 'Dallas' D'Allesandro.
About half way through the film when the natives darkened Dallas' skin in a Mama Elephant ceremony, my Mom said to my Dad that Elsa Martinelli had played the Indian girl my father liked so much in The Indian Fighter
After a second, my father said, "I'll be damned, it is her! Never thought she'd have been an Eye-tie--"