In the first place, the main character is mostly a terrible human being. It's an excellent lesson in how being convinced that you're right is dangerous.
In the second place, Robert Mitchum, who is looking very, very handsome in Not as a Stranger, is giving a wooden, weird performance that doesn't let the audience in at all.
The rest of the cast is mostly good – especially Broderick Crawford and Charles Bickford. And I'm always happy to see Frank Sinatra and Lee Marvin.
However, I just do not care about Olivia De Havilland, and I don't care how many Oscars they give her or how many pieces I have to read about how great Melanie in Gone with the Wind is. None of that can make me like her milquetoast personality.
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