Bad for Each Other

Irving Rapper was a good drama director, watch out his filmography for Warner studios, starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. I am not that surprised that Columbia pictures hired him for such a topic that suits him like a glove. He uses splendidly Charlton Heston and Liz Scott, two Paramount exiled, rather so far hired for crime film noirs. And I don't know why, but I would have imagined Ed Begley in a corrupt or fierce politician. Yes, this is a powerful drama, convincing, but unfortunately not that widely known; such a shame. We also can consider this film as a social drama, evoking hard conditions of miners. I expected a war vet drama, but it's something else and why not?