Sinsull-That movie you refer to is "The Silver Chalice". Chalice was also the screen debut of Paul Newman, and he HATED the movie. I, on the other had, loved the movie because the distaff lead, Virginia Mayo, was the object of this [then] fourteen year old's crush.
Palance played some wonderful non-villain roles: Manolete in the Playhouse 90 biopic of the famed matador; the broke down fighter in "Requiem for a Heavy Weight;" and the tormented actor in "The Big Knife."